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February 1989 

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simple enough for the casual 
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situations. Zabloowie! Add your own characters with the built-in 
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thought balloons and fill them with words written in special 
comic fonts that simulate that painstaking, "hand-lettered" look. 
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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 



FEBRUARY 1989 



CONTENTS 



♦FEATURES* 

The Brave Now World of Video 

By Bob Ryan 24 

NewTek's Video Toaster leads a handful 
of soon-io -arrive special-effects hardware 
thai may revolutionize Amiga video. 

"And for Special Effects, 
The Nominees are ..." B y Wayiand 

W. Strickland 32 

Six leading video packages strut their 
stuff before the judges as they compete 
for the Oscar in special-effects software. 

♦ ARTICLES* 

Accent on Graphics By Joel Hagen. . 42 

An occasional series of graphics tips and 
techniques. Accent #2 shows you how to 
fully utilize DcluxePaint's Blend and 
Smooth modes. 

The Amiga Reference Shelf 

Compiled by Jan Jackson and Barbara 

Gefvert Tyson 4ft 

Our long-promised roundup of Amiga 
books. Everything you ever wanted to 
know about Amiga-related matters, from 
Amiga applications, Amiga program- 
tiling, and AmigaDOS to tips, tricks, and 
techniques. 

♦ COLUMNS ♦ o 



Zeitgeist ft 

Back from COMDEX and visits to many 
Amiga developers, the editor has a mega- 
mouthful to say about up-and-coming 
new products on the Amiga market. 

BASIC by the Numbers By 

Bob Ryan 20 

Boh is in a "manipulative" mood this 
month, as he demonstrates how to use 
Amiga Basic to perform a bubble soil on 
your data. 

INFO.PHILE By Mark L. Van Name and 

BUI Catching* 50 

Our AmigaDOS specialists explore the 
ins and outs of several new device han- 
dlers that make version 1.3 a more effi- 
cient manager of your system's everyday 
business. 

♦DEPARTMENTS ♦ 




Wdame to the world of special effects — where 
things like toasters (above) don't always look like 
toasters (cover) under the influence of the right 
software and hardware. And right now, a whole 
slew of neta special-effects hardware — like New- 
Tek's Video Toaster — and software is revolution- 
izing Amiga video. What's more, it's happening 
at prices affordable to home computerists. 
(Toaster courtesy of Arlcue Rnrretl.) 



Notepad 10 

Heavy newsroom activity this month with 
reports on major shows in Las Vegas 
(COMDEX) and Philadelphia (World of 
Commodore) and a preview of die up- 
coming AmiF.xpo in New York. 

Hors d'Oeuvres 12 

Tips and techniques from your fellow 
Amiga users. 

Whats New? 74 

New Amiga hardware and software is 
pouring on the market from every 
quarter. 

Help Key 82 

Lou toils tirelessly to treat your technical 
troubles. 

♦ GAMES ♦ 

The Game Preserve By b. g. Hunter . 60 

AWs brand-new Games section debuts 
this month. In his first column, Games- 
keeper Hunler sets his sights on a skyful 
of flight simulators. As B. G. always says, 
"Find the best, and shoot the rest!" Other 
game reviews follow the column: 



Repartee 

Lei's hear it from the readers. 



Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) 64 

To the moon and back fighting Nazi vil- 
lains in this colorful arcade/strategy 
combination. 

Torch 2081 (Digital concepts) 64 

Missile-firing fireballs threaten your 
spaceship in a remake of the popular ar- 
cade game Qix. 

Street Sports Basketball (Ep yx ). . 66 

Match moves with a friend or the com- 
puter in a playground-basketball 
simulation. 

Gettysburg (Strategic simulations) .... 68 

Replay the famous turning point of the 
Civil War from either side in this strategy 
challenge. 

♦ REVIEWS ♦ 

FRAME GRABBER (Progressive 

Riripherals) 14 

Capture and convert images to an Amiga 
graphics display in just seconds. 

MIDI Recording Studio (Dr. r s 

Music Software) I ft 

A scaled-down, more affordable version 
of Dr. T's complex, full-featured KCS 
MIDI music system. 

COMICSETTER (Cold Disk) 18 

Create your own comic-book panels and 
produce them under a wide range of 
print options. 

ENVISION (Elan Design) 88 

Invision (software) and Live! (real-time 
digitizer) together provide an inexpen- 
sive, full-fledged video-effects generator. 

PROJECTD (Fuller Computer Systems) AND 

RAWCOPY 1.3 (Micro Systems Int'l) 92 

Two utilities for making archival backups 
of copy-protected software, 

FORMS IN FLIGHT II (Micro Magic) ... 98 
A timely update of the popular 3-D ob- 
ject editor. 

Virus Infection Protection 

(VIP) (Discovery Software Int'l) 102 

Fight hack against computer viruses by 
creating a disk file of custom boot blocks 
for all your software. 

EASY TITLER QMH Software) 104 

A video-titling program and slide-show 
generator in one package. 



COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY EDJUDICE 



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Display and Animation Language 



"If an Oscar were to be presented for Technical Excellence in 
Amiga Graphics, the winner would certainly be (the envelope, 
please) - The Director. ...an exciting', unique program. ..likely to 
become a classic... " 

Steve King, Commodore Magazine-April 1988 

"I must give The Director top marks for ease of use and 
capability. For the novice or serious presentation creator, this 
package is unequaled. It belongs on the shelf of anyone who 
considers himself an Amiga graphics connoisseur. " 

Oran J. Sands III, Info Magazine-June 1988 

$69.95 

NEW! TOOLKIT for THE DIRECTOR 

The Director Toolkit is a disk packed with features and enhance- 
ments to expand the capability of the Director. (There are new 
wipe routines, a palette selector, a pie chart generator and much 
more.) The new and enhanced BUT Utility has a powerful 
interface to help create Wipe, Dissolve, and BUT operations. It 
also automates the process of moving an object over a 
background, generating a complete working script 

• New wipe routines 

• Enhanced BUT Utility including object movement over 
backgrounds 

• Standard file requester callable from Director scripts 

• Screen save from Director scripts 

• MIDI input module 
1 Standard ANIM compressor 

• Pie chart generator 
Sine and cosine functions 
Card game example 



• Palette selector 

• Text displayer 

• And more! 

$39.95 

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Stephen Robbins, Publisher 
Guy Wright, Editor-in-chief 

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Dan Sullivan, Senior Editor 

BARBARA GEFVERT TYSON, Review Editor 

Jan Jackson, Editorial Assistant 
Bill Catchings, David T. McClellan, 

Mark L. Van Name, Lou Wallace, Contributing Editors 

HOWARD G. HAPP, Art Director 
ROGER GOODE. Assistant Art Director 

Anne Dillon, Designer 
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ZEITGEIST 



Amiga momentum and name-dropping. 



I HAVE BEEN doing a lot of 
traveling in the past few 
months. Going to shows and 
visiting companies. Talking to 
dealers and users, developers, 
and even Commodore. Jnsi 
about everyone has noticed 
that sales (both of Amigas and 
products relating to Amigas) 
have picked up considerably 
since August. Companies that 
are just entering the market, 
such as F.Ian Design, Incog- 
nito, Baudville, Emerald Intel- 
ligence, etc. are seeing great 
responses. Companies that had 
dropped out of the Amiga 
market and are now returning 
are seeing their decisions re- 
warded. And companies that 
have been here all along are 
seeing big payoffs. 

There are a lot of new prod- 
ucts coming out in the next 
few months, and that is good 
news for everyone. Commo- 
dore seems to be doing some 
promotion of the Amiga, and 
(bat is positive (light. David 
A.?). With any luck, by the 
time you read this there will 
be over a million Amigas sold. 

In this issue, we wanted to 
cover Amiga video but ran 
into a snag. With ail the video 
products out there and the 
ones coming out and the 
products that are related but 
not specifically labeled 
"video," we had a hard time 
picking and choosing. New- 



Tek's Video Toaster is hoi and 
definitely worth talking about, 
but what about Electronic 
Arts' or Aegis' new software, 
or RGB Video's impressive 
setup? And how do we deal 
with Philadelphia Video Labs 
and the kinds of things that 
they already do? There are 
people doing interactive- 
video — Knowledge Ware, Mich- 
tron. and Dupont — who have 
done some impressive things. 

But how do we talk about 
them all? Some are already 
doing impressive things and 
others are right on their heels. 
It seems that there is just too 
much going on with video and 
die Amiga to cover it all in 
one issue, which means we will 
just have to do some extra cov- 
erage in the next few months. 
Of course, the problem of hav- 
ing too much to talk about is 
better than not having 
enough. And I promise that if 
you didn't see a particular 
video product in this issue, we 
will be doing more, and 
sooner or later we will let you 
know about evervthing. 

And not just video. During 
the past month I had a chance 
to look at some products in 
the works that will be worth 
waiting for. Cinemaware, as 
you may already know, is com- 
ing out with what they call 
"the ultimate football simula- 
tion." Mv first look indicates 
they may be right. Rainbird is 
making an impressive reentry 
into the Amiga market with 
their games. Precision is work- 



ing on a stereo sound digi- 
tizer, RcdiSoft should have 
Dragon's Lair out. and thev're 
working on a Mac emulator 
and a VCR hard-disk backup. 
Anyway, there is a lot of new 
work being done. 

Commodore seems to be 
doing well these davs, loo. 
Thev are profitable and have 
put a few commercials on 
M I V promoting the AfidO, Ai 
COMDEX in Las Vegas last 
November, Bob Ryan and I 
spoke to Dr. Henri Rubin 
about some of CBM's new 
products. Commodore was 
showing their "new" A2500 
and A2000HDs (A2000s with 
extra boards), their transputer 
board, and their Unix board. 
Dr. Rubin said that he wants 
Commodore machines to be 
the standard by which every- 
one else is judged. When it 
comes to workstations, price/ 
performance ratios, and raw 
computing power, he might 
just be right. (He mentioned a 
68030 board running at 
35MHz. . .whew! That sucker 
must really cook!) All very 
hard core and high end. Now, 
what these products will mean 
lo you and mc is not com- 
pletely clear. 

When I asked him about 
products in the works, the an- 



swer was whal you might ex- 
pect. "I don't want to discuss 
anything that we can't demon- 
strate to you right now." End 
of speculation. I imagine we 
will gel a look at the new stud' 
at the Hannover Lair in Ger- 
many next March. Until then, 
Amiga World will keep poking 
around and reporting it back 
to you. 

Oh yes, I almost forgot. One 
ibing thai main 1 people told US 
they wanted to see in Amiga- 
World but didn't gel enough of 
was game coverage. If you 
have read any of my editorials, 
then you should have a good 
idea how I feel about games. 
So, beginning in this issue, 
Amiga World is starting a section 
devoted entirely to game cov- 
erage. This firsi installment is 
all about. . .well, you can read 
it yourself. I'm not going to 
give it away. 

Until next time or the time 
before (whichever comes next). 

Good night Gracie. 




6 February 1989 



More than a name... it's a LIFESTYLE! 



Aunt Arctic Adventure challenges you, Charlie the 
Chimp, and your friend Penguin Pete to rescue your 
aunt, who has been kidnapped by the diabolical Big 
Boms, and forced to work as a circus performer! 

Battle your way through 50 levels of scrolling mazes, 
encounters with hostile eskimos and confrontations with 
vicious polar bears and nasty penguins in your rescue 
attempt! 




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it's a LIFESTYLE! 



A team of investigative research scientists have been 
imprisoned on Charon 5, an interstellar colony ship 
whose original inhabitants no longer occupy it. Fitted 
with an intelligent ANdroid, your mission is to 
determine what went wrong, and rescue the 
scientists. 

Sound effects, ultra smooth scrolling and lightning 
fast action enhance over 5400 full color screens on 1 1 
different levels. 




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REPARTEE 

Comments, complaints, and concerns 
from Amiga World readers. 



Trick Knee 

! HAVK READ numerous com- 
plaints about (he Fat Agnus 
chip in the Amiga 500. When 
Agnus goes on the blink, most 
likely it has not burned out, 
but simply popped out. or be- 
come unseated. (However, ser- 
vi< c centers will gladly lake 
your money for a replacement 
chip anyway.) The symptoms 
of this condition are a green 
screen and a blinking power 
light. 

1 have found a simple solu- 
tion to this problem. Hold 
your 500 right-side up with the 
keyboard facing you. With 
your knee, gently lap the bot- 
tom middle of the machine. (I 
admit this seems cruel to do to 
something you have invested 
quite a bit of money in. but it 
will not hurt your 500 unless 
you really give it a smack.) 
Start off hitting it lightly, plug 
it in, and if it still doesn't 
work, do it again a little 
harder until you get it work- 
ing. Or, you can open up the 
500, find Agnus and pop her 
back into place (but I don't 
recommend this). I used the 
knee trick and have not had a 
problem since. 

Ronald R. Roscoe 
FPU, San Francisco, CA 



Background BBS 

IN YOUR OCTOBER '88 Help 
Key column, a user talked 



about wanting to set up a BBS 
in the background on his 
Amiga 2000 ["Out Back in the 
BBS," p. 100]. You mentioned 
only the commercially avail- 
able BBS- PC! bom Micro-Sys- 
tems Software. There are, 
however, public-doniain/share- 
ware alternatives. 

In fact, as I type this letter, I 
am running Citadel-68K 
V2.14I in the background on 
mv Amiga 1000. Citadel is a 
room-based BBS originating 
from the old CP/M davs, which 
has been ported to various 
computers including the 
Amiga. There are two other 
strains of Citadel also avail- 
able for the Amiga: Ami Del 
and STadel-Ami. 

Catadel-rlSK supports vir- 
tually all types of modems, can 
support up to 64 rooms that 
can cither be messages, files, 
or networking, or some combi- 
nation. Citadel-68K is basic- 
level compatible with the Cita- 
del Network, which includes 
many Citadel systems around 
Canada and the United Stales. 
STadel-Ami V3.3a, which 
should he available by the 
time you prim this, will lea- 
lure improved networking, 
truly private discussion rooms, 
and the ability to run outside 
programs. 

Mv BBS has been in opera- 
tion for JUSt under a year with- 
out a hitch. 1 share several 
rooms, including an Amiga- 
specific room. It can be 
readied as: Lunatic Haven, 
(403) 230-1225, 300/1200/2400 



bps. Numbers for other Room 
Type Systems can be obtained 
from the latest RSYS Listing. 

Lawrence Chen 

Calgary, Alberta 

Canada 

South of the 
Border 

YOUR NOTEPAD article 

about Amiga prices around 
[he world ["Exchange Rales," 
Nov. '88, p. II] needs some 
correcting. 

first of all. here in Mexico. 
Sigma is not (he only Amiga 
outlet, Sigma is (he Commo- 
dore representative here, but 
there are other computer 
stores that carry Amigas. Sec- 
ondly, the list price of the 
A5G0 is 1,995,000 pesos (about 
SS50 U.S.) and the 1084 moni- 
tor is $580 U.S. These prices 
are high due to the high im- 
port taxes. 

Gerardo A. Dada 
Cuernavaca, Mexico 

War Gamer 

I WAS DISTRESSED to see 
you pick on a tiny little com- 
pany's first game, namely 
Command Simulations' Blitz- 



krieg at (he Ardennes ["Amiga- 
World Top 40 (lames," Nov. 
'88, p. 36]. What didn't you 
like about the gamer Did you 
have the 512K or one-meg ver- 
sion? While (he 512K version 
had its problems, (he one-meg 
version is great! Command 
Simulations is the only com- 
pany developing brand new 
Amiga war games, not ports of 
old games like the ones SSI 
and Microprose are doing. Mi- 
croprose's Silent Service is a 
nice game, but it is virtually 
the same game that it was for 
the Apple 11 in 1984! I might 
also note that Epyx's Sub Bal- 
tic Simulator allows you to sail 
right through land on the stra- 
tegic map. (for this it was 
rated #20?) 

finally, you should have in- 
cluded several excellent share- 
ware games, such as Battlefort, 
a truly amazing translation of 
the game BatlleMech; and Bull 
Run. which plavs as well as am 
board game based upon that 
battle. Next year, wily not let 
the readers vole for the top 40? 
Robert Lindsay 
liethfsda. MD 

Send your letters to: Repartee. 
Amiga World Editorial, 80 Elm 
St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 
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space and clarity. ■ 



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PRINT 

CAN DO ALL THIS 

Digi-Paint gives you the best Amiga graphics 
possible — using all 4,096 colors at once! 
Unleash your creativity with powerful tools and 
dozens of special effects, including blend, 
shade, tint and mirror. Digi-Paint is the perfect 
way to manipulate pictures digitized with 
NewTek's Digi-View Gold. Create images for 
printouts, presentation or desktop publishing 
with the award winning Digi-Paint. Here's what 
people are saying about Digi-Paint . . . 

"We were very impressed with the power of 
Digi-Paint. We found lots of potential for 
creativity and enjoyment," 
AMIGA WORLD 

"We've been blown away by the effects and 
the fools that Digi-Paint supplies. The results 
can be spectacular." 
INFO 

"Digi-Paint is the first paint program that 
makes it feel as if you're actually painting. 
Digi-Paint gives you unlimited freedom." 
COMPUTE! 

"We have personally seen 540,000 computer 
graphic terminals that couldn't come close to 
Digi-Paint's power." 
COMPUTER SHOPPER 

"Digi-Paint is remarkable." 
BYTE 

"Digi-Paint is a $60 wonder. Using the 
dizzying menu of features, the results can be 
startlingly realistic." 
VIDEO MAGAZINE 

"Digi-Paint is a new generation paint program 
with exciting and unique features you will 
simply not find anywhere else. It is extremely 
powerful, and at its price, it's a steal." 
AMAZING COMPUTING 

Digi-Paint is available now at your local Amiga 
dealer or call 1-800-843-8934. 

ONLY $59.95 

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All photos are actual unretouched Digi-Paint images photographed off the Amiga. Ogi-Paint and Digi-View Gold are trademarks of NewTek, Inc. and Amiga is a trademark of 
Commodore Amiga, inc. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Cool Friends of NewTek Club, write to us at NewTek, 115 West Crane Street. Topeka. KS 66603 U.S.A. 
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NOTEPAD 



Compiled by Linda Barrett 




Computer Pow- Wow 



AS IS CUSTOMARY, the meeting of 
the tribes— also known as COMDEX— 
took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, last 
November. Commodore took advan- 
tage of the world's largest computer 
show to preview forthcoming prod- 
ucts and some that may not be re- 
leased for months or years. 

The Amiga 2000HD (an A2000, an 
A2090A Hard Disk Controller, and a 
40MB hard-disk drive) and the Amiga 
2500 (an A20C0. an A2Q90A/40MB hard- 
drive system, and the A262072 Co- 
processor Board) are official, priced at 
S2999 and S4699 respectively. 

Also available separately, the 
A2620/2 contains a 14.3 MHz 68020 
32-bit processor, a 68631 math co- 
processor, a 68851 memory manage- 
ment unit, and 2MB of 32-bit, auto- 
conflg memory. The A2620/2 turns 
your Amiga into a 32-blt computer, 
with the exception that I/O operations 
are still 16-bit operations. 

The Amiga 2500 UX, which runs 
UNIX System V, Release 3.1 (called 
AMIX on the Amiga) adds two mega- 
bytes of 32-bit memory and a 150MB 
streaming-tape backup unit to the 
A2500, and replaces the 40MB drive 
with a high-speed S0MB drive. The 



system software includes text-pro- 
cessing utilities and software-devel- 
opment tools. 

Other previews included the Profes- 
sions! Video Adapter, an Intel 80286- 
based AT-compatible Bridgeboard, a 
20MB hard-disk system (the A590) 
that Includes sockets for up to two 
megabytes of RAM, an InMOS T414- 
based transputer (parallel-processing 
computer) board, and an intelligent 
high-resolution graphics board based 
upon the Tl TMS 34010 chip. With 
exception of the A590, all work only 
with A2000-based systems. The new 
graphics board features 256 on- 
screen colors from a palette of 16 
million, a two-bitplane overlay, and a 
resolution of 1024x1024 pixels. 
While most of the products have a 
shot at a 1989 release, the transputer 
board probably won't be available un- 
til the next decade. 

Between the show and Commo- 
dore's Software Gallery, over 100 
Amiga third-party developers dis- 
played their wares. Interesting new 
products included: X11 (GfxBase), an 
Amiga XWindow implementation, 
SpectraScan (ASDG), PAGErender 3D 
(Mindware International), ACAD 



Translator (Access Technologies), the 
Viking 1 hi-res monitor (Commodore/ 
Moniterm), SuperPlan and video and 
audio digitizers (Precision Incorpo- 
rated), Present/IT (B.E.S.T.), Fanta- 
Vision (Broderbund), the Director 
Toolkit (Right Answers Group), Digi- 
View Gold (NewTek), and the 4010 
Remote-Control box (Magni). 

In the area of dealer support, Digital 
Depot of North Bergen, NJ, was pro- 
moting its Amiga graphics service bu- 
reau, offering users high-end graphic 
services through a dealer network. 

Old friends in new guises included 
Plan/IT (formerly MaxiPlan Plus) from 
B.E.S.T and PageStream (formerly 
Publishing Partner Professional) from 
Soft-Logik. One surprise was VIVA, an 
interactive video-authoring system 
from MichTron. The program was an- 
nounced over two years ago and then 
went underground. 

Commodore and Amiga developers 
were above ground and quite visible 
at the primarily MS-DOS show. This 
time, however, none of the pinstriped 
chiefs of the microcomputer industry 
expressed any surprise that Com- 
modore and the Amiga are alive and 
flourishing. — RR 



Free Trade 



THANKS TO THE new trade agreement between the U.S. and 
Canada, the World of Commodore made its first stateside appear- 
ance last November in Philadelphia. 

The U.S. Amiga contingent gave the Canadian-based show a 
hearty welcome, and Amiga software and peripherals dominated 
the show floor. Brown-Wagh Publishing debuted Pen Pal, a word 



processor with 4096-coior graphics-output support, a database man- 
ager, and drawing features. Micro-Systems Software announced 
Scribble! Platinum and Online! Platinum, beefed-up versions of 
the company's word-processing and telecommunications pro- 
grams. Cold Disk spotlighted MovieSetter. a WYSIWYG animation 
program. Trade was in fit II swing as Free Spirit .Software sold 



10 February 19S9 



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copies of Securities Analyst, a stock-charting and analysis program. 

While the show floor buzzed with talk about Precision Incor- 
porated' s new Official Superbase Application Developer program 
(OSAN), Precision also heralded Superbase Professional 3 (an 
upgrade sans dongle), Superbase Personal 2 (a simplified version 
of Superbase Pro 3), and its intentions for SuperPic, a variable- 
resolution frame buffer supporting 35,000 colors. 

Attendees held hardware negotiations with Comspec Commu- 
nications concerning the company's Bernoulli system, and with 
Supra Corp. over its 10-meg removable-floppy drive, SupraDrive 
FD-10. In the RGB Video Creations booth, representatives answered 



questions about that company's professional video system, while 
the C Ltd folks ran off documents and treaties on the fast, compact 
LazerXpress laser printer, retailing for under $2500. 

The lighter side of the Amiga was well represented, too. The 
ReadySoft booth was crammed with onlookers to the demonstra- 
tion of the six-disk graphics adventure Dragon's Lair. (ReadySoft 
also announced its plans for a hard-drive backup utility and Max, 
the Macintosh emulator.) Gamers also flocked to Microdeal, where 
several computers were running a slew of new releases, and to the 
Mindware International booth to play Charon 5. 

Watch future What's New? columns for product details. — BGT 




Art for Competition's Sake 

LIMBER UP YOUR paint programs and run your VCR through its paces. AmiEXPO wants your masterpieces for its Art 
and Video Contest. There are five divisions, each with a grand prize, plus plaques for the first, second, and third 
place finishers. For still artists, the categories and prizes are: Two-Dimensional Image (R & DL Productions' A-Pro 
Draw), Three-Dimensional Image (CSA's Piggyback Accelerator), and Digitized Image (Sunrize Industries' Perfect Vision). 
The options for vldeophiles are: Animation (Supra Corporation's 20MB hard drive) and Mixed Media Video (A-Squared's 
Live! and Elan Design's Invlsion). 

While you may enter as many categories as you like, you are limited to three still images or two videos per division. 
Submit your graphics on Amiga disk and your videos and animations on videotape— %-inch is preferred, but Vi-inch 
will be accepted. To spur international competition, all divisions are open to PAL-standard graphics. 

The official deadline is February 1, 1989. A panel of computer and fine-arts faculty members from New York colleges, 
universities, and art Institutes will judge the entries at the spring AmiEXPO in New York (March 3-5). A reception and 
presentation ceremony will follow during the show. The top three pieces from each category will be displayed in a 
special section of the AmiEXPO Theatre. 

Send enquiries for the contest's official rules and application forms to: AmiEXPO Art/Video Competition, Attn: 
Stephen Jacobs, 211 E. 43rd St., Suite 301, New York, NY 10017. — LJB 



Continuing Education 



WHILE MANUALS AND ref- 
erence books contain a wealth 
of information, they cannot of- 
fer (he feedback ami personal 
attention of a human instructor. 
Where can you find such indi- 
vidualized help for getting the 
most out of your Amiga? 

At S & A Computer Education 
(4636 E. Elwood, Suite 6, Phoe- 
nix, AZ 85040, 002/894-2883), 
owner Ken Coslello offers in- 
troductory (three hours), inter- 
mediate (six hours), and 
advanced (nine hours) courses 
in business, graphics, and music 
to individuals and small groups 
at S15 per hour. While The 
Computer Artist course inte- 
grates a number of programs. S 
& A's format allows you to learn 
specific programs within each 



category based on your needs. 

A video professional with a 
background as a business school 
instructor, Kett specializes in 
desktop video. No matter which 
course you choose, you can ben- 
efit from Ken's video expertise: 
While you work and discuss 
your problems with him. Ken 
videotapes your monitor and 
conversations, so you can re- 
view your lessons at home as a 
refresher course. 

In Silicon Valley, Patrick Bai- 
ley, Ph.D. spends his Saturdays 
guiding Amiga users through 
one of three courses: Introduc- 
tion and Overview, which covers 
the Workbench, the CLI. com- 
mercial word processors and 
paint programs, and accessing 
the public domain: Business Ap- 



plications, wherein he concen- 
trates on spreadsheets and word 
processing; or Music and MIDI, 
in which he uses a Casio CZ-5000 
to teach music programs. Classes 
are held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 
p.m. in an aerospace-center 
training facility. As Pat demon- 
strates on an Amiga connected 
to an overhead projector, stu- 
dents follow along with their ma- 
chines. A 'A ■ i n c h stack of 
handouts complements each 
course. 

The Amiga Class offers in- 
struction for S50 per student per 
day; Pat will also travel to your 
home for private evening ses- 
sions at S20 per hour or S50 per 
night. An upcoming series of 
l'/2-hour training tapes in En- 
glish, Spanish, French, and Ger- 




man is based on The Amiga 
Class instruction. The tapes 
(each is slated to retail in the low 
S20s) will be offered with an op- 
tional demo disk; the first of the 
series is due out in early 1989. 

If your are interested in les- 
sons or tapes, you can contact 
Pat Bailey at The Amiga Class, 
PO Box 201. Los Altos, CA 
94023,415/949-4864. —BGT 



AmigaWcrrld 11 



HORS D'OEIVRES 



Hints, tips, and techniques 
from your fellow Amiga users. 



ARCED RAM DOS 

LIKE MANY AMIGA users, I use the 
RAM: device to store my commonly used 
CLJ commands. Until recently, I would 
copy them directly into RAMx, as this 
pari of' my now obsolete startup-se- 
quence shows: 

MAKEDIR RAM:C 
COPY C/COPY RAM:C 
ASSIGN C: RAM:C 
COPY C/DIR RAM:C 
COPY C/LIST RAM:C 
COPY C/USHOW RAM:C 

and so on until all the desired com- 
mands were copied into RAMx. 

When I booted my .Amiga with this 
startup-sequence, I could hear my disk 
drive copying all those short files to the 
RAMx directory. This caused wear and 
tear on the drive, plus slowed down exe- 
cution of my startup-sequence. The fol- 
lowing method works much better 

1. Use ARC to make an archive file of 
your most used CL1 commands (i.e., DIR. 
LIST, TYPE, DELETE, CD, etc.). 

2. Copy this ARCed file to your boot 
disk. I put it in the s: directory. 

3. Modify' your startup-sequence so 
that it reads something like this: 

MAKEDIR RAM:C 

COPY DF0:S/COMMANDS.ARC 

RAM:C 
CD RAM:C 

PKAX COMMANDS. ARC 
ASSIGN C: RAM:C 
DELETE COMMANDS.ARC 

First, I make a c directory in RAM:. 1 
then Copy the ARCed file of my most 
used CLI commands into RAMx. I CD to 
RAMx, so that when I use PKAX to 
unARC the file, the destination for the 



extracted files will be correct. I use 
PKAX (a very fast "unARCer") to extract 
the files in commands.ARC. After the 
files are extracted, I assign c: to RAMx, 
so that AmigaDOS looks in RAMx for 
CLI commands. Finally, I delete the 
Commands.ARC file from RAMx to con- 
serve memory. 

This method is faster than the conven- 
tional way to copy the CLI commands, 
and it saves wear and tear on the drive. 

Greg Menzel 
Dellwood, MN 

A500 Joystick Port 
Extension 

IF YOU ARE as tired as I am of the in- 
convenient location of joystick port #2 
used in dongle-protected software, buy a 
nine-pin monitor cable. The one I pur- 
chased is 18 inches long and not only 
gives me easy access when inserting a 
dongle, but also gives greater freedom of 
movement for the joystick. 

Kenneth Spry 
Huntersville, NC 



Gronk! 

THE AMIGA'S MULTITASKING ability 

is unequated and almost limitless, but 
this marvelous feature looses some of its 
grace when the disk drive attempts multi- 
tasking. The drive head "gronks" loudlv 
back and forth, endangering the sanity 
of the operator. 

I encountered this problem most fre- 
quently when the last two lines of my 
startup-sequence read: 

LOADWB 

SHELL 

The drive would begin loading Work- 
bench and the impatient computer 
wotdd demand SHELL to be loaded at 



the same time. The familiar "gronking" 
sound naturally followed. I corrected this 
problem by simply telling the computer 
to take a breather between the two 
commands: 

LOADWB 
WAIT 5 
SHELL 

Telling my computer to pause five sec- 
onds actually accelerated the startup-se- 
quence by about 10 seconds! 

Owen Solberg 
Redding, CA 

IBM-Amiga Graphics 
Transfer 

FOR ANYONE WHO wants to transfer 
graphics from the Amiga to an IBM (see 
"Graphic Reflections," Help Key. Amiga- 
World, Oct. '88, p. 100), there is another 
solution, and it's free. Take a look at 
CompuServe's Graphics Interchange For- 
mat (GIF). There are programs available 
that convert graphics to and from the 
Amiga, IBM, Atari, Mac, Apple, and oth- 
ers. Many can now be found on local 
bulletin boards. There are programs for 
the IBM PC that handle the various 
screen resolutions. If you are using 
CompuServe, just type GO PICS. While 
you are there, take a minute to look at 
the hundreds of pictures available. 

Daitid Lynn 
Spokane, WA 

If you have an idea you'd like to share villi 
our readers, send it to Hois d'aeuvres, Amiga- 
World Editorial, SO Elm St., Peterborough, 
MI 03458. If your idea gets published, you'll 
receive an Amiga World surprise gift. ■ 



12 February 1989 




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REVIEWS 



Frame Grabber 

Catch it, quick! 

By Louis R. Wallace 

AS ITS NAME implies, Frame Grabber 

from Progressive Peripherals ran capture 
an image quickly and convert il into an 
Amiga graphic display. You can then 
load the picture into a paint program, 
use it in video animations or desktop 
publishing, or prim il to paper. 

The system consists of a small black 
box with three knobs and an XTSC 
video-input jack in front plus four ports 
in the back, a power supply, an RGB ca- 
ble, an adapter for the 1084 monitor, 
one disk, and a manual. In addition, you 
will need a standard Centronics printer 
cable and a source for the XTSC video 
signal, such as a television camera, video 
cassette recorder, or TV. Frame Crabber 
works with anv 512K. Amiga, but several 
of the screen resolutions are unavailable 
unless you have at least one megabyte of 
memory. 

All Hooked Up 

Installation takes just Five minutes. The 
instructions are very easy to Follow, and 
all ports and connections are clearly la- 
beled. First shut clown all power to the 
computer. Disconnect the video cable 
from the monitor, plug il into the Frame 
Crabber, and hook up the digitizer's ca- 
ble to the monitor. Finally, use the 
printer connector to join Frame Grabber 
to the Amiga's parallel primer port, and 
power up again. 

You can operate the Frame Grabber 
from either the CL1 or Workbench. 
Whether you choose color (2, 4, 8, 16, 
32, 64, or 4096) or black and white (us- 
ing 16 shades of gray), yon can capture 
images in a number of screen resolu- 



tions: 320x2(10, 384 X 240 overscan, 
320x400, 6-10x200 and 640x400. You 
can change resolutions and number of 
colors at any time, and opt to have the 
picture appear at quarter size instead of 
filling the screen. The software gives you 
full control over the palette so you can 
alter colors, create ranges, lock a palelle 
in place, and save it to disk. 

One of Frame Grabber's nicest fea- 
tures is its ability to use one monitor for 
both the computer image and the video 
signal. To switch between the Amiga dis- 
play and the incoming signal, simply 
press the tab key or space bar. This fea- 
ture lets you quickly check the camera's 
fin ns. or use the digitizer's external 
knobs to control the iniensiiv, hue. and 
saturation of the incoming video signal 
(as inn do with vour television). The 



video signal will appear on screen in ei- 
ther 4096-color or black-and-white mode, 
depending on the screen Formal you 
have selected. 

You can digitize an image while view- 
ing it on your Amiga monitor; simply se- 
lect the Grab menu option or press the 
C key (manv menu options have kev- 
board equivalents). Frame Grabber digi- 
tizes very quickly: You can capture a 
non-interlaced screen in 1/60 of a second 
while an interlaced image lakes 1/30 of a 
second. Frame Grabber downloads cap- 
tured image data to the Amiga, where 
the software analyzes it and produces a 
display. Depending on the image's size 
and color settings, elapsed lime from 
capture (when you press C) to appear- 
ance on screen ranges from Five to 30 
seconds. Black-and-white processing is *- 




You can control color Intensity via the Frame Grabber box. 



14 Febntan 1989 




The latest multi-player multi- 
format PC game from Australia is 
different to all forms of Poker. 

Aussie JOKER POKER features 
90 player capacity, open-ended discard 
ability, selectable deck size and hands per 
player, password controlled gambling system 
with automatic accounts - and 5 free entry 
forms for the $200,000 Aussie JOKER 
POKER Contest. 

Each month December 1988 through 
April 1989 winners of 240 JOKER 
SOFTWARE games and 4 finalists will be 
randomly drawn from all entries received 
that month. 

With a guest, the20 Finalists will be 
flown to Las Vegas to play Aussie JOKER 
POKER for a first prize of $100,000 In 
cash at the Golden Nugget. 

1,220 Prizes Value $200,000 

1,200 Joker PC software games 
at $29.95 to $49.95 dependent 
on disk format. Game prizes 
at sole discretion of sponsor. 



$60,000 



Cash Prizes for 
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Highest Scorer: 

Second Highest Scorer: 

Third Highest Scorer: 

Lowest Scorer: 

16 Consolation Prizes of 31.000 
each to eliminated Finalists 



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Aussie JOKER POKER is 
available for SIX major PC's 

If your PC has a mouse or keyboard, a mono 
or color monitor and a 512K minimum ram 
(except Apple II and C64/128 use 64K and 
keyboaru only) you and your family can 
practise at home for the Las Vegas final of 
the Aussie JOKER POKER contest. 



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All winners will be notified In Witting. 



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Amiga & Atari ST $49.95 

si6 ooo Macintosh (mono only) $49.95 

Apple II $39.95 

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If ordering by Telephone add $3 shipping & handling and cfiech that 
your PC meets the minimum hardware requirements as nocash 
refunds apply. Warranty is limited to free replacement of faulty 
products returned by prepare post. 




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1. No purchase necessary to enter. 

2. Void where prohibited by state or federal law. 

3. To enter, simply complete and return the the official 
entry form. 

4. Limit five entries per family or household. Five free 
entry forms and full contest rules are included with 
'Aussie Joker Poker* or may be obtained by sending 
a stamped self-addressed envelope larger than 
5Y2" « 1W with a hand written request to: Aussie 
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one per name, household or family and must be 
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5. Monthly entries must be received no later than the 
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6. Contest open to legal residents of the U.S.A. and 
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7. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible 
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8. Contest subject to complete official rules. 



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very quick, while 320 x 4U0 dithered 

HAM images lake the longest. 

You can save an entire image or just a 
portion (a brush) to disk as an IFF file. 
You can also save the data in three other 
formats: [MG8, which saves 12 bits of in- 
formation per pixel: IP, the file format 
the Digi-View (\ewTek) digitizer uses; 
and RAW. which saves all Frame Grabber 
data and thus generates the largest (lies. 
These formats allow you to load and dis- 
play pictures in other graphics modes. 
The Path Master file requester, which 
supports every disk device on the Amiga, 
provides access to all files. 

As Time Goes By 

I had great fun with Frame Grabber's an- 
imation abilities. The software lets you 
create frame-animation sequences simph 
hv tumbining images in a file. Because il 
uses die standard IFF ANIM format, you 
can play your sequences through a num- 
ber ol programs. 

While you can save each frame indi- 
vidually, the lime Lapse Animation fea- 
ture automates the process. With Time 
Lapse, the Amiga creates the animation 
by giabbing images at regular intervals — 
from one second to a hundred hours. 1 
set it up (o record an afternoon of leaves 
falling in my yard, which compressed 
into less than one minute of animation. 
With enough RAM and disk space, you 
can create much longer sequences. 

The quality of the digitized image de- 
pends on a number of factors, but most 
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picture. 1 used the same copy stand and 
camera as I do with my Digi-View still 
digitizer. Although the results were good, 
they do not match Digi-View's quality. 

Fhe concise, comprehensive manual is 
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pages to creating animations, as well as 
to the File-format structure. It also in- 



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MIDI Recording Studio 

Creativity and finances in accord. 
By Bob Lindstrom 

DR. T'S KEYBOARD Controlled Se- 
quencer (KCS), a high-end software con- 
nection to synthesizers, demands not 
only a sizable financial investment, but 
vast MIDI (Music Instrument Digital In- 
terface) knowledge to use. In perfor- 
mance and price, the company's MIDI 
Recording Studio (MRS) is a scaled-down 
variation on the KCS theme. 

In place of KCS's 48 tracks. MRS pro- 
vides eight, and instead of three main 
modules, MRS contains two: the Play/ 
Record screen and the F.dit screen. 
Where KCS encourages meticulous as- 
sembly of scores from melodic and har- 
monic fragments, MRS acts as a digital 
recorder, layering tracks. 

Don't make the mistake of concluding, 
however, that this program is only for 
beginners. MRS lacks the extensive fea- 
tures and flexibility (and complexity) of 
its big brother, but still lets you get down 
and dirtv with data. The edit screen dis- 
plays a complete listing of the numerical 
MIDI information, so you can individ- 
ually alter velocity values or hand tool 
svsex (.vy.vlcm exclusive) messages to gel at 
your synthesizer's unique performance 
potentials. 

Initially. MRS turns your Amiga into a 
digital tape recorder that can record 
everything you play on your MIDI key- 
board. Once you have saved those in- 
spired first impressions to disk, MRS 
makes your Amiga a word processor for 
notes: You can cut and paste portions of 
music, change volume levels and bal- 
ances, rewrite portions of the composi- 



tion, and fix any mistakes that might 
have crept into your virtuoso playing. 

And a One, and a Two 

Composition begins on the Play/Record 
screen, a module that simulates an eight- 
track tape recorder. Click the Record 
button and MRS will begin recording 
with your first keystroke. All tracks must 
be equal in length to the first one you 
record; wben you reach the end of a 
track, MRS can automatically switch to 
the next. 

If the results aren't what you had 
hoped for, simply erase the track or re- 
record it. For altering or playing back 
sections of a composition, the Start/Stop 




The Play/Record screen is where things begin. 

Cue option lets you repeat or record a 
section again and again. 

In addition to indicators for the MIDI 
channel and status (play, record, and 
mute) of each track, the Play/Record 
screen contains gadgets you can click lo 
record controller and aftertouch infor- 
mation — information that can add 
expression to music but can overload 
memory or clog the MIDI data flow. 
Other buttons let you merge or echo in- 
coming data to the MIDI Out port 
(Merge sends the data directly to the 
pori, while Echo rechannels it before 
passing il along). 

1 commend Dr. T's for giving MRS ac- 
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for integrating IFF-format instruments 
(when plaving internal voices, you can 
load a set of IFF instruments into RAM 
and assign each a MIDI channel, then 
save the banks to disk). MRS can even 
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sic entry. Even if you are on a budget, 
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(they're available for under $200) — it will 
give you greater flexibility and sound. 
The Edit screen, similar to the track 
module in KCS. is the fine-tuning place. 
A window displays all numerical MIDI 
data; to cut and paste, you simply high- 
light a section with the mouse and select 
your option. MRS has a full range of ed- 



iting features as well as the ability to al- 
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options call up menus for auto-correct- 
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transposing pitches, rhythms, and vol- 
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Though the eight-track environment will 
prove a drawback for very ambitious 
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concept is easy to grasp, and the controls 
and options are pared down for ele- 
gance and convenience. There is one 
case, however, where I found the stream- 
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than KCS. KCS's Open Mode lets you 
combine and recombine tracks to reor- 
der segments, move tracks to different 
keys, or play a rhythm part under var- 
ious melodies, for instance. The lack of a 
similar feature in MRS means you must 
carefully change each track individually. 

What distinguishes MRS from the 
other MIDI programs offering a similar 
work environment is the fact that you 
can grow with it. The record/play screen 
provides an intuitive and spontaneous 
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want in your manipulations. As you 
grow more confident and knowledge- 
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COMICSETTER'S PACKAGING makes 
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Continued on p. 86 



18 February 1989 




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BASIC By The Numbers 

Keep your eye on the bubble as you learn to make data more 
comprehensible by sorting it. 



By Bob Ryan 




Catching Up 



LAST MONTH, you learned how to save data in RAM in Amiga Basic data 
files and how to retrieve it. To demonstate this, I created two programs that 
formed the outline of a simple address book program. Here are the input 
and file-reading programs from last month: 



REM Addi 


ress Book 


REM Input Routine 


OPEN "Address" FOR APPEND AS #1 


Gel Data: 




CLS 




INPUT 


'Last Name: "; lasts 


IF lasts 


= '■ " THEN Finish 


INPUT 


'First Name: "; firsts 


INPUT 


'Street Address: "; streets 


INPUT 


'City: "; cityS 


INPUT 


'State: "; states 


INPUT 


'Zip: "; zipS 


INPUT 


'Phone #: "; phoneS 



WRITE #1, lasts, firsts, streets, cityS, states, zips, phoneS 

GOTO GetData 
Finish: 

CLOSE #T 
END 

REM Address Book 

REM File Reading Routine 

OPTION BASE 1 

DIM lstS(100,7) 

OPEN "Address" FOR INPUT AS #1 

WHILE NOT EOF(1) 

rec = rec + 1 

FOR fid = 1 to 7 

INPUT #1, IstS(recfld) 

NEXT fid 
WEND 
CLOSE #1 






Ordering Data 



THE MIT-READING program 
listed above lakes the data cre- 
ated with the input routine 
and saved in the file called 
Address and reads the data 
into a two-dimensional arrav 
called IstS. This arrav stores 
seven different pieces of infor- 
mation on up to 100 different 
people. When data is read into 
ist$, the program stores it in 
the order it was entered. You 
can change the order of the 
data in IstS by sorting it. 
While I'll show von how to or- 
der the data alphabetically by 
last name, you can sort the 
data bv anv criteria, such as 



consecutive zip codes or tele- 
phone numbers. 

In IstS. the first field of each 
record is the person's last 
name. Thus, the last name of 
the first person in the data- 
base is stored in the first field 
of the first record. You can 
view it by entering: 

PRINT lstS(1,1) 

You can see the last name of 
the second person by entering: 

PRINT Ist5(2,1) 



Many methods exist for sort- 
ing records alphabetically. In 
this example. I'll use the rela- 
tively inefficient bubble sort. 
While this method is slower 
than others, it is easier to un- 
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IN ESSENCE, a bubble sort com- 
pares consecutive pieces of data. If 
the pieces are not in the specified 
order, they are swapped. Thus, if 
the last name in record two alpha- 
betically proceeds the last name in 
record one, the sort swaps the rec- 
ords. The sort routine then checks 
record two against record three, 
record three against record four, 
and so on. When the sort reaches 
the bottom of the list of records, it 
returns lo the beginning to make 
another pass. The process repeats 
until the routine completes a pass 
without swapping any records, indi- 
cating that the records are ordered 
correctly. To understand why multi- 
ple passes are needed, consider the 
following short example. 

A four-element array contains let- 
ters of the alphabet. Initially, the 
contents of the array is: 

C B D A 

After one pass of a bubble sort, 
the contents are: 

B C A D 

(C and B are compared, determined 
to be out of order, and swapped. C, 
now item two, is compared with D, 
Item three, and found to be in the 
correct order. D is then compared 
with Item four, A, and a swap is 
made.) 
The next pass results in: 

B A C D 

Finally, one more pass yields: 
A B C D 



Subsequent passes will not result 
in any swaps, meaning the sort is 
complete. A bubble sort normally 
must make many passes through a 
list of records before all the records 
are ordered. 

Here is the bubble sort for the 
address book. The example as- 
sumes that you have already cre- 
ated an address file with the Input 
program and read it into IstS with 
the File-reading program. Append 
the following to the File-reading 
program. The number of the last 
data Item, as determined by the 
File-reading program is stored in 
the variable rec. 

Bubble: 
flag = 

FOR x m 1 to rec - 1 
IF lstS(x,1) > IStS(x + 1,1) THEN 
FOR Z = 1 to 7 
temp(z) h IstS(x.z) 
lstS(x,z) = 1stS(x + 1,z) 
lst$(x + 1 ,z) = temp(z) 
NEXT z 
flag = 1 
END IF 
NEXT X 

IF flag = 1 THEN Bubble 
CLS 

FOR x = 1 to rec 
FOR fid = 1 to 7 
PRINT IstS(x.fld); " " 
NEXT fid 
PRINT 
NEXT X 
END 

The heart of the sort is the 
IF. ..THEN statement that sees if 




Next Time 

A BUBBLE SORT is a lot to digest at once; work through my short example if you don't understand what is 
going on. Next time, I'll show you another data manipulation function, the search function. Address your 
questions and comments to BASIC By The Numbers, Amiga World, SO Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. ■ 



the last name of the current record 
Is greater than the last name of the 
record immediately following. Al- 
though the greater-than operator {>) 
works normally with numbers, you 
can use it to compare text data be- 
cause text is represented numeri- 
cally inside your computer by ASCII 
codes. The letter "A" has the low- 
est ASCII code, while Z has the 
highest. When comparing text, the 
greater-than operator compares the 
first characters of the strings; if 
these are equal, it moves to subse- 
quent characters until It finds a dif- 
ference or it runs out of characters. 

If the first last name is greater 
than the second (Indicating that the 
first is lower alphabetically than the 
second), the records are swapped 
and the flag is set to 1. The routine 
stores the first record in a tempo- 
rary array while the second over- 
writes the first. The first record Is 
then moved from the temporary ar- 
ray to the place formerly occupied 
by the second record. 

When the sort finishes a pass 
through the array, it checks the 
flag. If the flag is 1, the program 
performs another pass. If the flag is 
0, meaning no swaps were per- 
formed and the array is in order, 
the program passes to a routine 
that displays the contents of the 
newly sorted array. 















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Video Special Effects- 
Hardware 



The Brave 




World of Video 



With such breakthrough special-effects hardware 

as IMewTek's Video Toaster soon to come on the market, the future 

of Amiga video may already be here. * 

By Bob Ryan 

n a downtown Topeka office building, a few blocks south of the company proper, 
NewTek maintains a suite of offices devoted exclusively to research and devel- 
opment. Nicknamed Alcatraz, the suite is off-limits to most outsiders and much 
of NewTek. It was here, in the company of NewTek's Tim Jenisen, Paul Mont- 
gomery, and Brad Carvey, that 1 had come to discover the answer to the question 
that has been asked throughout the Amiga community for over a year: "Is the 
Toaster for real?" 

In a sparsely furnished office, an Amiga 2000 sat on a table surrounded by test 
equipment. In its video slot sat a single printed-circuit board connected by one 
wire to a video camera, by a second wire to an oscilloscope, and by a third to a 
video monitor. On the monitor screen, the input from the camera was being 
manipulated to produce some astounding effects. Watching the pyrotechnics on 
the screen, I smiled to myself and thought, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Video Toaster.", 

■^Editor's Note: Here in the Hardware section of our feature on Amiga video special effects, we have chosen to fonts on 
several brand-new items that have just arrived or will arrive soon on the Amiga market. At least in one case, we feel this 
equipment may be of such revolutionary, "breakthrough" significance that it should take precedence as the subject of our 
coverage over existing video hardware already on the market. And so it is that the much talked-about and eagerly-anticipated 
Video Toaster from NeioTek becomes the primary topic of our feature. 

Not to neglect readers looking for currently available video-effects hardware, we refer them to the "Video Roundup" 
sidebar accompanying this article for previous Arnica World articles and reviews. 



24 February 1989 




AmigaWorld 23 



THE VIDEO TOASTER IS a real-time video special- decided that an advance look al the Video Toaster 

effects generator from NewTek, the company that was warranted. 

produces the popular Digi-Vicw video digitizer. The 

Toaster accepts a video image as input and transforms TOASTER INS AND OUTS 

the image in myriad ways under software control. It The Video Toaster consist?, of man) integrated ele- 

fits into the video slot of the Amiga 2000. Scheduled menu, each performing a vita) task in the production 




for release in February 1989, the Video Toaster could 
be a breakthrough product. It is not inconceivable 
that many people will buy the Amiga 20(H) j lis t to use 
the Toaster, 

This story is not a review of the Toaster. The edi- 
torial policy of AmigaWhrld dictates that we publish 
critical reviews of products only after their actual 
release date, i.e. after they have shipped. Yet. because 
of the great interest our readers have shown in it. we 



of the Toaster's effects. Because the Toaster accepts 
an NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) 
video signal, the first major element in the system is 
a video digitizer that transforms the video image into 
the digital information that the Toaster can manip- 
ulate. The digitizer works in real time, capturing each 
video field in one-sixtieth of a second (two fields 
make up one video frame). 

The images produced by the digitizer cannot he 



Special-Effects Systems for the Amiga 



The Toaster is one of a number of hardware- 
based special-effects systems available or under 
development for the Amiga. For instance, many 
Amiga genlocks, such as SuperGen (£750) from 
Progressive Image Technology/Digital Creations, 
contain controls that let you fade the computer 
image over the external video image. This effect 
is in addition to the primary purpose of these 
units, the synchonization of an external video 
signal with the Amiga's graphics output. 

Just on the market from Elan Design Is in- 
vision, which offers many of the same effects 
as the Toaster— although it performs its magic 
inside the Amiga's standard display hardware 
and not in a specialized frame buffer. In con- 
junction with the Live! digitizer from A-Squared 
Distributions, fnvislon lets you capture a se- 
quence of images in near real time and perform 
effects on the sequence. The effects include 
mirror, mosaic, blinds, nuke, strobe, and more. 



Because of the limitations of the Amiga dis- 
play hardware and of Live!, In vision cannot 
match the colors and resolution of the Toaster. 
Yet, at S129, with another SZ95 for Live!, it offers 
a relatively Inexpensive system for producing 
video special effects— and, of course, it is avail- 
able now. (A review of Invision appears on p. 
88 in this issue.) 

The Professional Video Adapter (PVA) is a 
two-board video system previewed by Commo- 
dore at COMDEX/ Fa 1 1 in Las Vegas this past 
November. Developed by the Computer Graphics 
Laboratory of the New York Institute of Tech- 
nology, the PVA captures a frame of video from 
an external source, stores the frame in a buffer 
where you can modify it, save it to disk, digitize 
it into the Amiga's native display hardware, or 
display it overlayed with Amiga graphics using 
its built-in genlock. The genlock also allows you 
to synchronize Amiga graphics with the external 



source without using the buffer. 

The Computer Graphics Laboratory is also 
developing PVA Paint, a paint program that 
works on the image stored In the PVA buffer 
and allows you to use the millions of colors 
available in NTSC video. It will include features 
found In professional video paint boxes. 

Market Weather Report: Cloudy 

As part of the Commodore Technology Preview 
at COMDEX, the Professional Video Adapter- 
like other products previewed there — is only un- 
der development and may never be released 
generally, according to Commodore officials. Dr. 
Henri Rubin, Commodore International CEO, 
however, Indicated that he expected all the pre- 
viewed products to be released eventually. Com- 
modore did not commit to either a price or a 
release date for the PVA. 

Also on the horizon is a product called the 



26 February 1989 



viewed with the Amiga's display hardware so they are 
stored in and displayed from die Toaster's memory. 
It is here, in the Toaster's display buffer, that the 
video images are altered under software control to 
produce the Toaster's effects. The transformed im- 
ages are then encoded (using V-1Q encoding) into a 



as input. These signals vary so widely from the NTSC 
signal thai the Toaster cannoL sync with them. In the 
very near future, N'ewTek plans to offer a sophisti- 
cated time-base corrector allowing home VCRs to be 
used as input into the Toaster. 

The mix of signals that makes up the output From 




broadcast-quality RS-170A video signal. This signal 
can be output by itself or over a second video input 
using the Toaster's built-in overlay genlock. This video 
signal can then be displayed on an NTSC monitor, 
recorded on videotape, or even broadcast over the 
airwaves or on a cable system, 

Limitations exist on both the input and output side 
of the Toaster system. As shipped, the Toaster will 
not be able to accept the output from a home VCR 



the Toaster also has some limitations. Standard Amiga 
graphics (including 1 IAM (hold-and-modif'y) and half- 
brite images) cannot appear on the same horizontal 
scan line as Toaster-manipulated images. To display- 
both Amiga graphics and Toaster images, you must 
divide the screen into two horizontal slices — one dis- 
playing Amiga graphics, the other 'Toaster effects. 
Note also that the Amiga graphics slice is output 
using R-Y, BY encoding, which is not normally ac- 1 



To slide Into a new scene 
with the Toaster, try a 
Push over Vertical Blinds. 



"Black Box," which is under development at 
Progressive Image Technology and Digital Cre- 
ations. The product is described as an all-in-one 
video solution. II Is a dual-channel, frame-syn- 
chronous time-base corrector that can synchro- 
nize two video sources and overlay one on the 
other. It includes the ability to perform fades, 
dissolves, A/B rolls, and A/B editing. 

With standard memory, the "Black Box" will 
work in broadcast resolution. With additional 
memory, it will handle Super VHS (SVHS) res- 
olution. Expected to accompany the hardware 
is a paint system and an effects generator. Fu- 
ture enhancements will include a titling system. 
It is expected to work with all Amiga models. 

Digital Creations expects to announce the 
product at the National Association of Broad- 
casters conference in April and to ship the prod- 
uct at that time or shortly thereafter. As of this 
writing, no price has been set for the product. 



Product Information 

SuperGen 

Progressive Image Technology 
distributed by Digital Creations 
1333 Howe Ave., Suite 208 
Sacramento. CA 95825 
916/344-4825 
$749.95 

Envision 

Elan Design 

Box 31725 

San Francisco, CA 94131 

415,621-8673 

$129 

Live! 

A-Squared Distributions 

6114 La Salle Ave., Suite 326 



Oakland, CA 94611 
415/339-0339 

800/452-4445 
800/626-9541 in CA 
$295 

Professional Video Adapter 

Commodore Business Machines 

1200 Wilson Drive 

West Chester, 1 J A 19380 

215/436-4200 

No release date or price available. 

"Black Box" video project 

Progressive Image Technology 

distributed by Digital Creations 

see address above 

Scheduled release approx. April '89. 

No price information available. D 



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AmigaWorld 27 




The famous lace of NewTek's "Maxine Headroom" takes on a new 
look with the Toaster's mirror effect. 



cepiable for broadcast. Both the Amiga graphics and 
Toaster slices, however, can overlay the second video 
input. 

Very Special Effects 

The Toaster performs its magic in its display buffer. 
Here, the custom gate-array chips transform the digi- 
tized input images into the altered output images. The 
instructions controlling the process are generated by 
special software running on the Amiga. As the Toaster 
runs in real time, each transformation must take place 
in less than one-sixtieth of a second. 

At the time of this writing, over a dozen effects 
had been programmed for the Toaster, including 
page flips and turns (which rotate the image around 
x- and y-axes, respectively), spheres (which map the 
image onto a sphere), and mosaics (which divide the 
screen into four, eight, or sixteen or more parts and 
replicate the image into each part). A scroll effect 
lets you scroll an image on and off the screen, while 
zoom allows you to zoom in on a part of an image 
or zoom out and shrink the image. Transposition 
effects let you move an image anywhere on the screen, 
while pushes let you move an image on the screen 
from anywhere. 

A mirror effect permits you to copy one half of 
the image onto the other half of the screen. In com- 
bination with mosaic, it lets you produce a kaleido- 
scope effect. Blinds lets you divide the image into 
vertical segments that you can rotate left and right. 
Moving blinds lets you push images in vertical seg- 
ments. Pixelization gives the image a blocky, com- 
puter-generated look, while the fish-eye effect allows 
you to simulate a superwi de-angle lense. Any of these 
and other preprogrammed effects can be used in 
sequence to create more complex effects. 

Total Toaster Control 

You can control the Toaster and the effects it pro- 
duces on four levels. The easiest control is provided 
by the software that comes with the Toaster. This lets 
you choose effects by clickingon icons corresponding 
to the supplied effects. The next level of control 
involves the use of script files. Scripts offer you finer 
control over a sequence of effects by giving you 
precise control over the speed, duration, and other 
parameters associated with particular effects. 

A third level of control is provided by ATL, short 
for A Toaster Language. ATL will be available for 
people who want to write their own effects for the 
Toaster. NcwTek plans to offer a support system to 
third-party Toaster developers. 

The most intricate level of control is to write new 
effects at the assembly-language level. This gives you 
the greatest degree of control over the Toaster, but 
it also requires the most time and expertise. 

Although the software I saw demonstrated per- 
formed effects only, NewTek has further software 
plans for the Toaster. Due to be finished about the 
time the Toaster ships, and perhaps to be bundled ► 



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AmigaWorld 
Video Roundup 

The articles and reviews from previous Issues of AmigaWorld cited 
below may be useful to those interested in video hardware used 
to generate special effects. In addition to these, consult our annual 
Index ol Articles and Reviews (published in each January issue) for 
other video material. The Graphics/Video section of our annual 
Hardware Buyer's Guide provides another source of possible infor- 
mation. The current guide appears in the March '88 Issue, p. 48, 
although our updated version with much new material will appear 
next month in the March '89 issue. 

Articles previously published In AmigaWorld with particular rel- 
evance to video hardware Include: 

"Desktop Video" 

By E. E. Eric Erzinger 

JanJFeb. '87, p. 16 

"Vldeot's Delight" (Amiga video hardware and software) 
By Wayland W. Strickland 
Mar. '88, p. 22 

"Amiga Home Video" 
By D. L. Richardson 
Mar, 88, p. 42 

"The Amiga Home Video Companion" 
By Wayland W. Strickland 
Sept. '88, p. 40 

Reviews of interest might Include: 

Digi-View (NewTek) 
Reviewed by Stan Kallsher 
Jan./Feb. '87, p. 76 

Frame Grabber (Progressive Peripherals) 
Reviewed by Louis R. Wallace 
Feb. 89, p. 14 

Live! (A-Squared Distributions) 
Reviewed by Ted Salamone 
July '88, p. 14 

Perfect Vision (SunRize industries) 
Reviewed by Chris Dick man 
June '88, p. 80 

ProGen (Progressive Peripherals) 
Reviewed by Wayland W. Strickland 
October '88, p. 78 

SuperGen (Progressive Image Technology/ 
distributed by Digital Creations) 
Reviewed by Wayland W. Strickland 
July '88, p. 66 



with it, is a video-titling program that renders directly 
into the Toaster's frame buffer. Thus, the same effects 
used on the input image can be used on the titles. 

Perhaps a year away from completion is an NTSC 
painl program thai can take advantage ol the millions 
of NTSC colors. NewTek hopes to incorporate all the 
features of the Quantel Paintbox into its paint pro- 
gram for the Toaster. Further along, NewTek hopes 
to produce a 3-D graphics program that will render 
directly into the Toaster's frame buffer. Release of 
such a program depends, however, upon the availa- 
bility of relatively cheap RAM chips for expanding 
the Toaster's memory. 

Toaster Future/Toaster Present 

In addition to software, NewTek plans to add follow- 
on hardware products to the Toaster system. As was 
mentioned above, NewTek plans to release a time- 
base corrector allowing the Toaster to accept home 
VCR input. Of course, the Toaster can always send 
its output to a VCR. NewTek also plans to release 
additional RAM for the Toaster to allow the storage 
of longer video sequences and the rendering of 
animations. 

In addition. NewTek is planning a switcher board 
for the Amiga 2000, which will enable you to attach 
multiple inputs and outputs to the Toaster and to 
choose between them under software control. It will 
also allow for effects such as dissolves and wipes. The 
switcher holds out the possibility of using your Amiga 
as a video-editing controller by possibly controlling 
the operation of the attached video decks via a serial 
connection. 

Both i he cost and the shipping date of the Toaster 
ultimately depend upon one thing — the price and 
availability of RAM chips. If RAM chips are as ex- 
pensive and as hard to come bv in early 1989 as they 
were in November 1988, when this was written, the 
Toaster may not ship until March or April 1989, and 
may cost nearly SI 500. NewTek hopes, however, that 
reports of improvements in RAM pricing and avail- 
ability carried in industry trade journals are correct, 
and that they can produce the Toaster sooner (for a 
February release) and cheaper (under S1000). 

You tan not evaluate a product from a demonstra- 
tion — the test of the Video Toaster will come when 
it is released for sale. One thing, however, is certain: 
The Video Toaster is an exciting and innovative prod- 
uct. Whether it is a successful one depends upon how 
well it satisfies the needs ol prolession.il and amateur 
videographers alike. 

For further information about Video Toaster, 
contact: 

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1 15 West Crane St. 

Topeka, K.S 66603 

913/354-1146 

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of special effects to the Amiga videographer, 
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tevc-n Spielberg does it. George Lucas does it. 
J Madison Avenue advertising producers do it. And 
now you can do it too. Do what? Why, create those 
nifty, perspective-altering special video effects that 
send people to the movies and sell products to con- 
sumers, that's what. And, more importantly, you can 
afford to do it — with video software selling for about 
$100-$200. 

Hollywood horror and sci-fi flicks and network 
advertisements, of course, employ high-priced video- 
switching equipment in sophisticated studios and ed- 
iting suites to get thejob done. That kind of hardware 
runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. (You 
can rent such equipment, but even there the going 
rate is about $850 per hour!) But now video amateurs 
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The six Amiga special-effects video programs pre- 
sented here all provide the means for you to create 
special effects, or "transitions" (the transforming of 
one picture into another— see the "Glossary of Spe- 
cial Effects Terminology" for a list of the more pop- 
ular of these transitions). Some offer more numerous 
variations, better control, and greater ease of use 
than others. Some are best suited to begitiners, while 
others may fit the requirements of intermediate or 
advanced users. The important consideration is to 
match a program's capabilities with your own needs 
and skills. After presenting all six programs, I will 
discuss their relative merits and try to help you make 
that match. 

Editor's Note: Consult the Product Information box accom- 
panying the article for manufacturers' addresses, telephone 
numbers, and suggested retail prices. Also, some of tlie pro- 
grams presented below have been reviewed previously in 
Amiga World. In such cases, the reviewer's name and the 
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Lights! Camera! 

Action! 

Aegis Development 



Lights! Camera! Action! (LCA), written by Gary 
Bonham (Video Titler), is an easy-to-use desktop video 
program designed to integrate IFF (Interchange Fiie 
Format) pictures and "anim" (Aegis/Sparta) anima- 
tions with music and instruments from "Sonix" (Aegis) 
in order to create a "polished" presentation. LCA has 
an easy-to-use interface that permits exact control of 
music or sound effects, video, and even frame number. 
Sporting over 40 special-effect transitions, LCA can 
perform flips, dissolves, fades, and wipes in nine dif- 
ferent directions, as well as some impressive special 
effects, such as dribble and zig zag, 

LCA also supports the SuperGen (Digital Crea- 
tions/S750) genlock"; ability to provide software con- 
trol over fader bars. Extremely smooth dissolve effects 
are very easy to achieve with LCA. The program also 
strongly supports overscan. LCA uses screen sizes of 
384 x 480 interlaced mode and 768 x 480 in high res- 
olution; both are ideal for broadcast applications. 

LCA is not copy protected and installs easily on a 
hard drive for increased efficiency. Both halfbrite 
and the PAL (European) television system are sup- 
ported. LCA requires at least one megabyte of RAM 
(2MB is recommended) and is shipped with a sample 
art disk and a public-domain player program so that 
you can distribute your work. Accompanying LCA is 
a special utility program called CrabAnim, which will 
multitask with other software, such as a paint pro- 
gram, and permit you to save the screen to a file in 
the anim format. This feature allows you to make 
simple animations directly from a paint program bv 
moving a brush, recording the frame, and then re- 
peating the procedure over and over, until you have 
attained the end position. Then, simply close the file 
and use the play anim program to play back the 
"finished" animation. 









PAGEflipper 

Plus F/X 

Mindware International 



Perhaps the most versatile special-effects package 
on the market, PAGEflipper Plus F/X allows the user 
to create elaborate keyboard-controlled animations 
with true interactive capabilities. In addition to these 



interactive capabilities, PAGEflipper Plus F/X offers 
7fi built-in transitions, as well as the (he ability for 
users to create their own transitions. Unique built-in 
transition effects of this program are sawtooth and 
mosaic. 

Absent from PAGEflipper's user interface are pull- 
down menus and many other Amiga "niceties." The 
result is that there is no wasting of precious chip 
memory that could be more productively used else- 
where. The familiar mouse and gadgets, however, are 
included to speed the process along. In addition, 
there is a very good on-line help feature. 

All screen transitions are very smooth in all reso- 
lution modes, including HAM (hold-and-modify) and 
HalfBrite. PAGEflipper enables the user to spread 
animation across several disks for increased flexibil- 
ity. The program is compatible with anim formats 
introduced by Aegis Corporation; in fact, ii incor- 
porates a utility program permitting preexisting an- 
ims to be converted into IFF images and used in any 
PAGEflipper Plus F/X animation. 

PAGEflipper's manual is chock full of information 
covering each and every feature in a detailed manner. 
It even includes common "mistakes"' made when us- 
ing each of the program's features so that users can 
anticipate their occurrence and avoid them during 
program operation. A complete tutorial and refer- 
ence section arc also included. 

Also part of the PAGEflipper package is a freely 
distributable player program for circulating vour an- 
imations. PAGEflipper Plus F/X requires two floppy- 
drives or a hard drive and at least 512K of memory, 
but it is highly recommended that you have 1-2MB 
available to make full use of the program's many 
features. 



TV*Show 
Zuma Group 

[distributed by 
Brown-Wagh Publishing) 



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TV*Show is a very easy-to-use special-effects pro- 
gram employing mouse and pull-down menus lo help 
you create a polished animation. You can obtain 
immediate online help for any operation by posi- 
tioning and then clicking the mouse pointer over 
what you wish to know more about. An information 
screen will appear with detailed explanations con- 
cerning the feature. 

TV*Show accepts all Amiga IFF graphic resolu- 
tions, including HAM. Overscan support is included, 
with an ovcrscanned screen size of 704x480 (al- 
though (his size leaves a small border on the left and 
right margins of the screen on some television sets). 



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Full-screen images or brushes can be presented in 
any of over 50 different ways, including wipes, fly- 
bys, rolls, reveals, vertical blinds and so forth. 

The program operates in both the NTSC (National 
Television Standards Committee) and the PAL tele- 
vision systems and requires a minimum of one mega- 
byte of RAM to operate. Provided your system has 
enough RAM, the player and editor may be multi- 
tasked for greater efficiency. TV*Show is not copy 
protected and works well with a hard drive. One 
particularly unique feature of the program is its abil- 
ity to incorporate the Amiga's built-in voice synthe- 
sizer into presentations. 

TV*Show's player program demonstrates thought- 
ful design; if the program is loading a part of the 
animation and an error occurs, the program will 
continue without that part, being faithful to the tra- 
dition of "The show must go on!". The manual is well 
written, providing easy-to-follow instructions cover- 
ing each part of the program. Also included is a mini- 
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.5 latest video software. Deluxe Productions 
(DP), offers smooth, double-buffered animation in 
high-resolution mode. A mouse-driven storyboard 
screen — offering 12 scenes that can be programmed 
simultaneously— controls all animation, To enhance 
your animation, choose from over 40 wipes, including 
some very effective scatters and spirals. Deluxe Pro- 
ductions permits easy cut-and-paste editing of all 
elements in an animation. The program supports any 
IFF high-resolution image with a palette of lfi or 
fewer colors out of [he 409(5 available. 

Animations can be chained across several disks or 
the program itself can be installed onto a hard drive, 
providing for faster response time and efficiency. DP 
requires all of the available chip RAM plus half a 
megabyte of fast RAM (1MB recommended)— which 
may be a problem for anyone whose fast memory 
must be "addmemed" into the system. Two disk drives 
are also required. DP's player program has two op- 
tions to check the animation before playing in order 
to ensure satisfactory playback. As with all new soft- 
ware from EA, Deluxe Productions is not copy pro- 
tected. DP comes with two art disks filled with high- 
resolution graphic backgrounds and new fonts. Its 
manual is well written, explaining animation-creation 
features in clear, concise detail and including easy- 
to-follow tutorials. 



Deluxe Productions operates in overscan 
(672 x 444), which (contrary to the manual and soft- 
ware) leaves quite a large border on all four sides of 
the screen. Oddly enough, the manual mentions that 
any image generated by another program that is 
larger than the Deluxe Productions format for over- 
scan will be automatically "trimmed down" to fit into 
DP's overscan dimensions. Why Electronic Arts main- 
tains its nonstandard overscan conventions is a mys- 
tery. This one glitch in an otherwise excellent package 
makes Deluxe Productions undesirable for many ap- 
plications, such as in industrial video use. (Reviewed 
by Can Ludiukk, Nov. '88, p. 16.) 



Animation: Effects 
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The first thing you might notice about Anima- 
tion:F.ffects is that it does not include many of the 
special-effect transitions most of the other programs 
discussed in this article can perform— such as check- 
erboard-patterned wipes, spirals, and so forth. At 
S49.95, however, it is also by far the least expensive 
program in our survey. 

Animal iomEffects is divided into three separate 
programs: 1) Wipe, 2) Scroll, and 3) Flip. 

Wipe loads IFF or HAM images of any resolution 
in overscan (352x480 interlaced and 704x480 in 
high resolution) and allows these images to be dis- 
played over video. Wipe can perform several differ- 
ent patterns; for example, you can wipe from left to 
right, right to left, top to bottom, and bottom to top. 
You can also do a box wipe from the center of the 
screen out to the edges of the screen, as well as 
perform fade-ins and fade-outs. That, however, is 
about the extent of Wipe's transitions. The left/right 
and top/bottom wipes are probably the most effective 
transitions offered. 

Scroll loads any text or IFF image (no overscan 
permitted) except HAM and scrolls the information/ 
image up and down the screen. Scroll has three basic 
commands regarding the movement of information 
around the screen: 1) up arrow — for scrolling top to 
bottom, 2) down arrow — for scrolling bottom to top, 
and 3) space bar— to pause the scroll, Although Scroll 
does not permit speed adjustments, depending upon 
the resolution used, the information/image will still 
move at a moderate speed suitable for normal reading 
and comprehension. 

Flip loads IFF or HAM images of any resolution. 
The part of the image to be Hipped must be blocked 
off, thus making a matte. The matte can be rotated • 



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along the x-, y-, or z-axis, thus providing you with roll, 
tilt, and swivel movements. In addition to these, other 
movements can be achieved by controlling the num- 
ber of frames between the previous key frame and 
the next one. You can also designate how many frames 
to use in order to "ease" movements (i.e., eliminate 
any "choppy" movement associated with acceleration 
and deceleration). 

In addition to being able to control (he matte's 
movements, Flip also allows you to adjust light in- 
tensity, position of light source, perspective (the cam- 
era's position), shading, and pivot point of the matte. 
When you are ready to record, you can do so in one 
of three different modes: 1) IFF, 2) Pack— the com- 
pressed animation format used by all Hash Enter- 
prises products, and 3) Anim — the storage format 
compatible with player programs written for Aegis 



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Development's products. 

The major drawback with Flip, however, is the 
slow compilation time. The time required to com- 
pile an animation with Animation:Effects was con- 
siderably longer than for any of the other pro- 
grams tested. (Reviewed by Wayland Strickland. Sept. 
'88, p. 70.) 



Video Effects 3D 

InnoVision 

Technology 



Video Effects 3D (VE-3D) is no ordinary special- 
effects program. It offers a wide variety of transitions, 
including some impressive x-, y-, and z-axis rotations 
with three-dimensional perspective. Objects (pic- 
tures/brushes) can be given a drop shadow to simulate 
a single light source. With the touch of a button, you 
can extrude logos into three dimensions — with the 
realistic perspective of solid objects. Perhaps VE-3D's 
most startling effect is "shatter," which can be likened 
to the act of laminating a picture onto a piece of 
plate glass and then striking the glass with a mallet. 
The picture will "shatter" into four pieces only, and 
these pieces "lly" diagonally out from each other to 
create the effect. 

The program operates in high-resolution mode 
using two to eight colors per screen from the available 
4096. VE-3D uses full-screen IFF images as objects. 
The IFF screens, however, must be created outside 
the program, as VF.-3D has no creation capabilities 
of its own. 

VE 3D sports an icon-and-mouse-driven user inter- 
face, permitting great speed and efficiency. The pro- 
gram supports overscan (704 X 452). and can be used 
in conjunction with a hard drive. The program is not 
copy protected. 

VE-3D comes with a competent, detailed manual 
and provides one of the best on-line help features I 
have ever seen. If you want to learn about a particular 
feature, simply place the pointer over the gadget. A 
small explanation will automatically appear on the 
screen (usually to the left of the gadget). The expla- 
nations do not interfere with the execution speed of 
the program in any way, while providing timely re- 
minders about program features and much-appreci- 
ated assistance when help is needed. (Reviewed by Gary 
Ludurick. October '88, p. 84.) 

Matching Program to User 

To sum up, one special-effects program cannot fulfill 
all the needs of every user. The trick is to know which 
one to start off with to learn the basics, and then » 



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which ones to move onto in order to achieve more 
ambitious productions. The video amateur may do 
well to begin with programs such as TV*Show and 
AnimatiomEffects. Both of these programs are easy 
to use and provide a good grounding in principles 
that can be put 10 more full effect later on. 

Lights! Camera! Action! would be a good choice 
for the intermediate user, as it is the most versatile — 
offering numerous special effects in addition to in- 
corporating digitized sound into its repertoire of 
features. Deluxe Productions, likewise, appears an 
ideal candidate for the video intermediate — although 
the overscan problem tends lo negate many of the 
program's fine features. For the video pro, the so- 



phisticated features and handling of PAGEflipper 
Plus FIX and Video Effects 3D make them the cream 
of the crop for the experienced user. 

All special-effects software packages are written for 
one purpose — to be useful. In what manner the pro- 
gram will be employed is left up to you. Your partic- 
ular applications and, most importantly, your 
creativity will determine the true usefulness of any 
of these programs. ■ 

Wayland W. Strickland is a producer, director, iixriter, and 
graphic designer of television presentations for WKCF-TV 
68 in Orlando, Florida. Write to him do Amiga World, 
Editorial Dept., 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 



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Effects TermJno]ocj\ 



Blinds refreshes the screen (horizontally or verti- 
cally) as if Venetian blinds were opening or closing. 

Dissolve gradually switches from one image to 
another. 

Fade causes the image to slowly become black. 



Rectangle refreshes the screen with a rectangle 
growing (or receding) from one corner to the corner 
diagonally opposite. 

Scroll pushes the current image off the screen while 
pulling the new image on screen after it (top to 
bottom or bottom to top). 



Flip or Tumble rotates the image around the x-axis, 
similar to a car's turning tires. 



Shatter breaks an image into pieces that fly off the 
screen in different directions. 



Hinge Swing pivots the image on one edge (top, 
bottom, left, or right), similar to an opening and 
closing gate. 

Mirror divides the screen in two and places the same 
image on both sides; all movements on one half are 
reflected on the other. 



Spheres map images to spheres. 

Spin rotates the image around the z-axis, similar to 
a spinning carousel. 

Transposition places a smaller version of a full- 
screen image anywhere on the screen. 



Mosaic divides the screen into equal sections (four, 
eight, sixteen, and so forth) and repeats the same 
image in each block; also refreshes the screen with a 
spattered-square pattern. 

Moving Blinds pushes an image across the screen 
in vertical segments, similar to closing a fan. 

Pixelization gives an image a fragmented, blocky 
look. 



Turn rotates the image around the y-axis, similar to 
leafing through a newspaper, 

Wipe overlays one image onto another using a pat- 
tern (for example, checkerboard, spots, diagonals, or 
triangles). 

Zoom shifts the perspective closer for a larger ver- 
sion of the image, or further away for a smaller 
version. 



Pushes move an image onto the screen from any 
point. 



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Developing a 
"Soft" Touch 



By Joel Hnften 



MANY USERS OF DeluxePaint fre- 
quently tell me they have never figured 
out anything really useful to do with the 
Blend and Smooth modes. This always 
startles me, as I use these modes con- 
stantly in a variety of ways— for smooth- 
ing and softening edges, for enriching 
textures and colors, and even as a draw- 
ing tool for stretching or squeezing the 
shape of the image. 

At a basic level, both Blend and 
Smooth are useful modes for softening 
the edge between two color areas. It is 
the nature of computer images to have 
curved or diagonal edges with a jagged 
look. This results from a phenomenon 
called "spatial-aliasing." and the blocky, 
stair-step look is often referred to as the 
"jaggies." Working at higher resolution 
reduces the severity of jaggies simply be- 
cause the pixels are smaller. A proper so- 
lution to the problem of representing 
those curves and diagonals, however, is 
complex. The standard technique for 
doing so — called anti-aliasing — is a diffi- 
cult one that involves computing a value 
for each pixel on a line in proportion to 
the area it occupies with its neighbors. A 
jagged black line, for example, becomes 
a line composed of black and shades of 
gray, giving the illusion of smoothness to 
the eye. 

In a way. both Blend and Smooth can 
perform a similar softening of edges, 
with far less expenditure of time and ef- 
fort. With Smooth, as a brush is passed 
over color borders in an image, the en- 
tire palette is searched for intermediate 
colors that are then painted into thai 
border. This has an overall softening ef- 
fect on all parts of the image passing un- 
der the brush. Blend, on the other hand, 
can respond to a controlled group of 
colors established in the palette. It is per- 
haps most effective when used with a se- 



quential Range of colors. Eight browns, 
for example, could be Spread evenly 
from dark to light, or yellow could be se- 
quentially Spread to blue, then estab- 
lished as a Range. Blend will use as 
intermediates only those colors in the 
Range, and will affect only those colors 
in the painting falling within that Range. 
This is a powerful feature. 

One key to capitalizing on the power 
of both Blend and Smooth is logical pal- 
ette arrangement There must be enough 
of a range of values within a color group 
to provide as many options as possible 
for intermediate colors at a boundary. 
Another factor to experiment with is 
brush size. The larger the brush, the 
more drastic the effect. As a rule, smaller 
brushes afford greater control and more 
gradual change. 

Contrasting Effects of 
Blend and Smooth 

Blend operates very quickly as you move 

a brush, while Smooth can lake quite a 
while to perform its computation, de- 
pending on the size of the brush. I find 
that I use Smooth mainly as a method of 
softening the boundary between two dis- 
similar color regions in a painting, or to 
give a diffuse look to something, a dis- 
tant mountain range, for instance. In the 
astronomical landscape (Figure 1), I have 
highlighted a typical area in which I 
might use Smooth. The line of the cliff 
in front of the distant planet is quite jag- 
ged as drawn. Inset 1 shows that region 
magnified, while Inset 2 shows that same 
region after using Smooth. The line is 
softer and more natural in appearance. 
Smooth found both browns and blues in 
the palette as intermediate colors, ignor- 
ing any Range settings. 

In the foreground of the same paint- 
ing. I have highlighted a tvpica! area*. 



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DeluxePaiiit's Blend and Smooth modes can reduce 

the "jaggies" in your image, and also 

enhance the richness of its color and texture. 



where I might use Blend. All the browns 
in the landscape have been included in a 
Range. Where I have drawn a piece of 
light brown bordering dark brown, I 
have an opportunity to use Blend for 
added richness of color and texture. 
Blend is a much more active tool than 
Smooth, changing (he shape of regions 
over which it passes in a controllable 
fashion. In the dotted-linc mode, Blend 
operates almost instantly, even with fairly 
large brushes. What was a crisp shape of 
light brown becomes a more natural- 
looking, contoured form after the brush 
has affected it. Inset 3 shows a magnifica- 
tion of the foreground region un- 
touched, while Inset 4 shows the effect of 
Blend on that region. It is easy to sec the 
even gradation ol color and value this 



technique accomplishes. 

\ trie k I often use with Blend in land- 
scape painting is to create a brush that is 
merely a thick line. 1 can use the 
straight-line tool for this, or simply cut 
out a bar from the picture itself with the 
brush selector. Selecting a foreground 
color in the appropriate Range, I hit the 
F6 key for Blend mode and click on the 
straight-line tool. Using fast feedback, I 
anchor the bar outside the region I want 
to affect, and stretch a line across the 
picture and release the mouse button. 
The brush slowly and evenly sweeps 
across the picture, affecting only the ap- 
propriate colors beneath it and giving a 
subtle stroke direction to everything in 
its Range. This stroke effect can enhance 
the look of a mountain slope, a snow 





Figure 1: Astronomical landseaps with insets showing eflects of Blend and Smooth. 



Figure 2: Animation frame from "RGB Hazard" 
to which Blend stretching technique has been 
applied. 



field, or banding on Jupiter, for exam- 
ple. Be judicious with Blend or Smooth, 
letting the technique contrast with crisp 
regions elsewhere in the image. 

In an Entirely Different Mold 

One of my favorite uses for Blend is as a 
drawing mode, rather than a softening 
tool. It is very effective in altering black- 
and-white digitized images. Using the en- 
tire 16-Ievel gray scale as a Range from 
black to white, you can load a digitized 
image into DPaint and Remap it to that 
palette. You can then squeeze, stretch, 
and reform it in any imaginable way. 

The lip-stretching image (Figure 2) is a 
frame from an animation called "RGB 
Hazard" I created using The Director 
program (Right Answers Group). I digi- 
tized a series of pictures with my hands 
in position pulling imaginary frog lips. 
In DPaint, I used a medium-sized brush 
in Blend mode to repeatedly "push" the 
cheeks and lips out toward the fingers. 
Amazingly, the action feels more like 
pushing clay than like painting — there is 
always a soft contour to the edge of the 
area being pushed. Make sure you in- 
clude the background color in the 
Range, or else this technique will not 
work. Small areas of white can be 
smoothly extended into black regions, 
then pushed and shaped from the black 
areas back into the white. It is a drawing 
experience unique to the computer. ■ 

Joel Hagen's credits include work in art, as- 
tronomy, science fiction, and software develop 
meat. Write to him at 10512 Sawyer, 
Oakdale, CA 95361. 



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The Amiga Reference Shelf 

With a little determination and a good book, 



AmigaDOS 



The Amiga Companion by Rob Peck 
(IDGC/Peterborough, SI 9.95) walks you 
through the CLI (including version 1.3), 
offers low-cost software options, and an- 
swers commonly asked questions. 

AmigaDOS Inside and Out (Abacus, 
S19.95) discusses AmigaDOS from its de- 
sign to its practical applications, includ- 
ing operating notes about the CLI. 

The AmigaDOS Manual: 2nd Edition by 

Commodore-Amiga Inc. (Bantam, S24.95) 
discusses all 1.2 AmigaDOS commands, 
explains the Amiga's filing system, and 
gives guidelines for program develop- 
ment in C and assembly language. 

AmigaDOS Reference Guide bv Allan R. 
Levitan and Sheldon Leemon (COM- 
PUTE! Publications, $18.95) defines and 
illustrates all AmigaDOS 1.2 commands, 
helps you create file directories, access 
peripherals, run batch files, and explains 
the screen and line-oriented text editors. 

Applications and Hints 

Amiga Applications by Brian Flynn (COM- 
PUTE! Publications, SI 5.95) offers 24 
type-in programs written in Microsoft 
BASIC, including home and business ap- 
plications, science and math tools, and 
games. 

Amiga Tricks and Tips (Abacus, $19.95) is 
a collection of Workbench, CLI, and BA- 
SIC programming hints, plus applica- 
tions programs. It shows how to allocate 
memory, trap errors, use fonts, and mix 
machine language with BASIC. 



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First Book of Amiga (COMPUTE! Publica- 
tions, S18.95) is a compilation of games, 
applications, and programs designed to 
show off multitasking. A disk with the 
book's programs is available from COM- 
PUTE! for SI 5.9 5. 

Inside Amiga Graphics by Sheldon Lee- 
mon (COMPUTE! Publications, S18.95) 
describes the Amiga's graphics and ani- 
mation abilities, as well as how to use 
commercial graphics hardware and 
software. 

1001 Things to Do with Your Amiga by 
Mark Sawusch and Dave Prochnow (TAB 
Books Inc., $12.60) suggests uses from 
household record-keeping and budgeting 
to investment analysis and business man- 
agement, from games and hobbies to sci- 
entific and educational ideas. Listings, 
printouts, flowcharts, diagrams, and illus- 
trations are provided. 

Second Booh of Amiga (COMPUTE! Publi- 
cations, SI 5.95) contains ready-to-type-in 
programs in Amiga Basic. This anthologv 
offers programming tips and hints, ap- 



plications, utilities, graphics tools, educa- 
tional programs, and games. 

Using DeluxePaint II by Steven Anzovirj 
(COMPUTE! Publications, S19.95) is a tu- 
torial on Electronic Arts" popular graph- 
ics program, from basic drawing skills to 
customizing brushes. Illustrations and ex- 
amples included. 



Programming 



Advanced Amiga Basic by Tom R. Halfhil] 
and Charles Brannon (COMPUTE! Publi- 
cations, $18.95) covers designing graphic 
applications, generating sound and mu- 
sic, creating a user interface, program- 
ming peripherals, and advanced BASIC 
commands for experienced 
programmers. 

Amiga Assembly Language Programming by 
Jake Commander (TAB Books Inc., 
S13.60) supplies an overview of tiHOOO as- 
sembly language, including binary arith- 
metic and the svntax, addresses, and 
effects of assembly commands. 

Amiga Basic Inside and Out (Abacus, 

S24.95) combines a beginning tutorial 
and advanced guide. A complete glos- 
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Guide, and error message descriptions 
are reference features. 

Amiga C for Advanced Programmers by 

Bruno Jennrich, Wolf-Gideon Bleck, and 
Peter Schulz (Abacus, S24.95) explains 
the workings of compilers, assemblers, 
and linkers. The book also covers 
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not found in version 1.2 

that will help take better, 

more efficient care of your 

system's everyday business. 



By Mark L. Van Name 
and Bill Catchings 



OUR RECENT FIVE-PART preview of 

AmigaDOS 1.3 ("info.phile," Aug. '88- 
Dec '88) shows that version 1.3 is an evo- 
lutionary step forward for the Amiga on 
several fronts. One of the most important 
of these — and deserving of additional em- 
phasis here — is its standardization of a 
single way for us to use most major system 
resources — through device handlers. 

AmigaDOS has included device hand- 
lers, of course, since its first release. In 
the beginning, however, they worked 
only with physical devices, things that 
were part of the system's hardware. You 



Handle With 




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used the SER: handler to work with the 
serial port, the PAR: handler managed 
the parallel port, and so forth. 

With version 1.3 the Amiga developers 
extended this notion and added handlers 
for software "devices." While these de- 
vices are not things you can reach out 
and touch, they often provide powerful 
services that help you take care of your 
everyday Amiga business. 

We have already covered a few of 
these device handlers in the 1.3 preview: 
RAD:, the handler that implements the 
new recoverable RAM disk; NEWCON:, 



which gives the Shell its history buffer 
and command line editing features; and 
ENV:, which will someday give us Shell 
environment variables. (Today ENV: is 
merely a name assigned to a RAM: direc- 
tory where the Shell stores environment 
variables. Nonetheless, it is significant 
that Commodore is serious enough 
about devices to set up ENV: now so that 
it will not change visibly in the future 
when it is a true device handler.) 

Three new device handlers not cov- 
ered previously are also worthy of note. 
AUX:, SPEAK:, and PIPE: perform useful • 



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functions and may prove significant ad- 
ditions to your system. 

Dont Choose 'em if You Cant- 
Use em (But Mount *em if You 
Want 'em) 

Any time a new operating-system feature 
appears, the right question to ask is "so 
what does it do for me?" At first glance, 
the new 1.3 device handlers may seem to 
he little more than technical goodies 
providing little real help. Look at them a 
little more, however, and you will see 
that this first impression is wrong. 

First of all, they help make AmigaDOS 
more consistent. To send a file to any de- 
vice — from the printer to the speaking 
software — you simply copy it to the ap- 
propriate device. This consistency makes 
the system a lot easier to learn. Equally 
important, they make it easier for soft- 
ware developers to utilize the Amiga's re- 
sources more fully, meaning that 
developers will he more likely to build 
applications that exploit the entire ma- 
chine. Finally, as we will show in some of 
the examples below, some of the new de- 
vices make it easier for us to perform 
useful day-to-day tasks. 

Before we get into the specifics of 
these three new devices, we need to men- 
tion one important characteristic all of 
them share: You have to mount them he- 
fore you can use them. Fortunately, 
doing so is easy — simply use the 
MOUNT command and the name of the 
device's handler, as in 



MOUNT AUX: 



MOUNT SPEAK: 

Actually, it's even easier than that with 
1.3. because the standard startup files do 
most of the work for you. S:STARTLT- 
SEQUENCE mounts NEWCON:. That 
file also calls another Startup file, 
S:STARTUPII, which mounts AUX:, 
SPEAK:, and PIPE:. 

Even though these devices are not 
disks, there is nothing magic about how 
the MOUNT command mounts them. As 
with disks, it uses an entry in the file 
DEVS:MOUNTLIST to control how it 
sets up each device. The entry for RAD: 
looks basically the same as the disk-drive 
entries we discussed in our last column. 
The entries for the other new devices — 
NEWCON:, AUX:, SPEAK:, and PIPE:— 
use different keywords than the disk- 
drive entries, but they follow the same 
basic format as those entries. 

All of the MOUNTLIST entries for 
these four new devices contain the fol- 
lowing basic information: 

<dev_name>: 

Handler = L:<handler_name> 

Priority = 5 

Stacksize = <slack> 
# 

For example, the NEWCON: entry fills 
in the missing variables in the above ex- 
ample with the following: 



NEWCON: 

Handler = L:Newcon-Handler 

Priority = 5 

Stacksize = 10(10 
# 

The first line gives the device's name. 
The second says that its handler is the 
program Newcon-Handler in the L: di- 
rectory. The handlers for the other three 
new devices are L:Aux-Handler, L:Speak- 
Handlcr, and L:Pipe-Handler. Alt of 
these handlers run at priority 5 by de- 
fault, as Commodore recommends. The 
Stacksize parameter merely tells the sys- 
tem how much of its memory stack to set 
aside for each handler. NEWCON: and 
AUX: use a default stack of 1000 bytes, 
while SPEAK: and PIPE: have a default 
Stacksize of 6000 bytes. 

The MOUNTLIST entries for SPEAK: 
and PIPIv: also i onlain one additional 
line that requires explanation: 

GlobVec = - 1 

The GlobVec parameter controls 
whether a handler requires a special 
memory area called a Global Vector. 
This memory-area requirement is a hold- 
over from the Amiga's sordid past, when 
most of the original system was written 
in a cumbersome language, BCPL (Basic 
Combined Programming Language), that 
required it. Newer system code written 
in C or assembly language usually does 
not require a global vector. If a device's 
MOUNTLIST entry omits this line, then »■ 



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that device is able to work in the 
AmigaDOS shared Global Vector. By set- 
ting GlobVec to - 1, the SPEAK: and 
PIPE: entries say that those devices do 
not need any global vector. (Some device 
entries also set GlobVec to 0. Those de- 
vices require a private global vector.) 

AUX and Squawks 

First, let's take a look at AUX: and 
SPEAK:. While the latter should prove a 
useful addition to your system, the for- 
mer, unfortunately, may fail our "So 
what. . .?" test. AUX: basically is another 
device, like SER:, that lets you work with 
the Amiga's serial port. Unlike with SER:, 
however, you must mount AUX: before you 
can use it. More importantly, while SER: 
will buffer its input and output until the 
Amiga and the attached device arc ready, 
AUX: does no buffering. What this means, 
however, is that you can use AUX: to attach 
a second terminal to your Amiga's serial 
port and run a CLI from diat terminal. 

So what good is that to most of us? 
Probably not much. If you want to turn 
your Amiga into a rudimentary multi- 
user system, AUX: is worth a closer look. 
There may be business applications here 
for your work, or perhaps you may be 
part of a multi-Amiga family with unique 
communications needs. But, most of us 
work alone on our Amigas and for us 
AUX: is only a passing curiosity. 

SPEAK:, on the other hand, provides 
another way to use one of the Amiga's 

Table 1. SPEAK: device's options. 



most interesting capabilities, its ability to 
talk to us. Yes, we've had the CLI SAY 
command for some time, but SPEAK: 
lets us shove files at the sound-genera- 
tion system with ease. To have your 
Amiga read a file back to you, just do 

COPY <file> TO SPEAK: 

and sit back and listen. 

As with SAY, SPEAK: comes with many 
options that let you control the way the 
speech sounds. To attach an option to 
SPEAK:, follow it with the word OPT 
and a string of one or more options, 
each separated by a slash (/). For example 

COPY <file> TO SPEAK:OPTM/N 

says that SPEAK: should read back 
<file> with a male, natural voice. The ta- 
ble below sums up SPEAK:'s options. 

By the way, SPEAK: depends not only 
on its handler, but also on the Amiga de- 
vices that convert text to phonemes 
(LIBSTRANSLATOR.LIBRARY) and out- 
put phonemes (LIBS:NARRATOR. 
DEVICE). These files come in the stan- 
dard LIBS: directory; make sure not to 
delete them if you plan to use SPEAK;. 

Pipe: Fast Action, No Hype 

Our final new AmigaDOS 1.3 device, 
PIPE:, is a technical feature written by 
Amiga developer Matt Dillon. It is based 
on the pipe capabilities of Unix, MS- 
DOS, and other well-known operating 
systems. Basically, PIPE: provides an easy » 



p<nnn> where <nnn> is a number from 65 to 320 that controls the pitch of 
the voice. 

s<nnn> where <nnn> is a number from 30 to 400 that controls how fast the 
voice talks. 

makes the voice male. 

makes the voice female. 

makes the Amiga use a robotic voice. 

makes the Amiga use its most "natural" voice (which, as we all know, 
is not all that natural). 

controls whether the input text file can contain voice control op- 
tions. If <n> is 0, the default, the file cannot; if <n> is 1, the file can. 
controls whether the Amiga first translates the input file to pho- 
nemes (<n> = 0, the default), or assumes that the input file already 
contains phonemes and speaks them directly (<n>= 1). 
controls whether the Amiga breaks up sentences based solely on how 
they are punctuated (<n> = 0, the default), or whether it also assumes 
that sentences end whenever it encounters a carriage return or line- 
feed «n>=l). 



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way for one process to send data to an- 
other without your having to worry 
about coordinating their work. 

For example, let's say that the listing of 
the top level directory of your hard disk 
runs three or four screens. If you are 
trying to see what's in there, you have to 
be quick to pause the screen as the list- 
ing scrolls by. You could get around this 
problem by redirecting the output of 
DFR to a file and then using the MORE 
utility on that file, as in 

DIR > <file> 
MORE <file> 

DELETE <file> 

Unfortunately, this approach requires 
that you create and then delete a tempo- 
rary file. Even if the file is in RAM:, that 
still wastes time. By using PIPE: you can 
simply feed the result of DIR to MORE: 

RUN DIR > PIPE:<pipe_name> 
MORE PIPE:<pipe_name> 

As fast as you can type the second line, 
MORE will display the listing on your 
screen. When you are done, there is no 
temporary file to delete. 

The name PIPE comes from the idea 
of a data pipeline: A writing program 
dumps data in one end as fast as it can, 
and a reading program sucks it out the 
other end as fast as it can handle. 

So what happens when the pipe is 
full? Fortunately, that will not happen 
very often, because PIPE: can buffer up 
to 4K of the output of the writing pro- 
gram. Should the writing program get 
more than 4K ahead of the reading pro- 
gram, PIPE: will pause the writing pro- 
gram until there is room again in the 
pipeline for its output. In the example 
above, this is why you can avoid a tempo- 
rary file. PIPE: manages the flow of data 
between DIR and MORE for you. It takes 
the output of DIR and hands it to MORE 
as fast as the two programs can handle. 

There is one big hitch to this ap- 
proach, however, and you can see it in 
the use of the RUN 7 command with DIR 
in the example above. Because the size 
of the buffer is limited to 4K, the writing 
program (in our example, DIR) will 
pause and tie up the CLI in which you 
started it if the program fills up the 
buffer. Then the reading program 
(MORE in our example) will never get to 
start, and your CLI will hang. In fact, 
you will never even get to type in the 
reading line, because the writing pro- 



gram will hang as it waits for the PIPE: 
to clear. This means that the writing and 
reading programs should run in separate 
CLIs— which is why we used RUN to put 
our DIR in its own process. Remember 
to use RUN or two CLIs to keep the 
reading and writing programs separate. 

If you do put them in the same pro- 
cess and they hang, don't panic; you do 
not have to reboot. Merely push your 
CLI window to the background, go to 
the Workbench, and start up a new CLI. 
In the new CLI, type the command to 
start the reading program, and it will be- 
gin to work. 

There is one other hitch: The reading 
program must be of the type that simply 
reads bytes one after another. MORE is 
that kind of program, as are most termi- 
nal-emulator data capturers and many 
other applications. The reading program 
must not try to position to a specific lo- 
cation in the input "file" that it thinks it 
is reading. Database programs, for exam- 
ple, often go to exact byte locations for 
searches, and therefore you cannot give 
them a pipe as input. 

As another example of how pipes can 
help in real applications, consider a ter- 
minal emulator that you are using to 
download a file. Every time its internal 
buffer fills up, the terminal emulator has 
to pause and write the file to the disk. 
This slows the file transfer. Instead, you 
could have the terminal emulator write 
to the file PIPE:capture_file. Then, in 
another CLI process, you could execute 
the command 

COPY PIPE:capture_file TO 

transferred—file 

PIPE: will handle the buffering for the 
file transfer and help it run more 
smoothly and quickly, 

These new software devices make pow- 
erful additions to your Amiga's capabili- 
ties. Probably the most important 
addition to any Amiga, however, is a 
hard disk. Next month, we will discuss 
buying a hard disk and what it takes to 
get it up and running on your Amiga. 
Until then, go out and buy AmigaDOS 
1.3 (it finally began hitting the stores at 
the end of October '88) and start playing 
around with these new devices. ■ 

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tributing editors to AmigaWorld. Write to 
them at 10024 Sycamore Rd., Durham, NC 
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Plane Talkin' 

From sight-seeing planes to seeing planes 
in your sights. 



By B. G. Hunter 

OVER THE PAST month, I logged enough hours in 
the cockpits of flight simulators to get my pilot's 
license twice over. All that air time reinforced my 
basic feeling about flight simulators: Playing games 
is much more fun than just flying around. 

Of the six flight simulators tested (Flight Simulator 
II, Jet, Flight Path 737, SkyChase, Harrier Combat Sim- 
ulator, and F/A-18 Interceptor), none illustrated this 
distinction better than subLOGIC's Flight Simulator 
II (FS2). The company based FS2 on its original IBM 




Flight Simulator that set the standard for the many 
others that followed. FS2 lets you fly a Cessna, Lear 
jet, or World War I biplane with realistic controls. You 
fly to cities around the world and learn navigational 
skills along the way. You can even buy disks of scen- 
ery — great if you love to fly, but I was bored silly. 

Granted, FS2's "Gates" Lear jet is a step up over 
the original version's Cessna, and the scenery is nice. 
I even had a few jollies flying under the Golden Gate 
Bridge and between the Twin Towers. The World War 
I flying ace missions did give me a taste of combat, 
but the game left me longing for a jet, a fast one, 
preferably fully armed with Sidewinder missiles. 

The second flight simulator from subLOGIC, Jet, 
is a lot closer to my ideal. It offers a fighter jet, either 
an F-16 or a carrier-based F-18, both are armed for 
anion against ground targets and Russian MIGs. You 
pick your weapons as you roar off to combat. You 
can even connect a second Amiga and dogfight with 
a friend. Jet also improves on FS2's boring instrument 
panel with a "heads-up" display that is superimposed 
on the windshield. This design lets you avoid looking 
down at the instruments, a move that could be fatal 
in a duel with a MIG. ►■ 



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In other words, you can undo 
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Jet's biggest drawback is its huge set of keyboard 
commands— almost every key does something. While 
you are memorizing them or consulting the reference 
chart, the beginner mode makes flying easy; it won't 
let you crash. As you log more hours, you can move 
up the skill levels until you're a true lighter jockey. 

I enjoyed playing jet— blasting foes in a fighter, 
just my speed— but it's not my favorite of the pack. 

Anco's Flight Path 737. on the other hand, shows 
you what flying a real 737 is like — a job. Your goal 



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F/A-18 Interceptor 

Electronic Arts 

1820 Gateway Dr. 

San Mateo, CA 94404 

415/571-7171 

$49.95 

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Flight Path 737 

Anco Software USA Inc. 

PO Box 292 

Burgeltstown, PA 15021 

412/947-9922 

800/992-9198 

S24.95 

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Flight Simulator II 

subWQIC Corp. 

501 Kenyon Rd. 

Champaign, IL 61820 

217/359-8482 

800/637-4953 

$49.95 

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Harrier Combat Simulator 

Mindscape 

3444 Dundee Rcl. 

Northbrook, IL 60062 

312/480-7667 

800/221-9884 

$49.95 

No special requirements. 

Jet 

subLOGIC Corp. 

see address above 

$49.95 

No special requirements. 

SkyChase 

Maxis Software Inc. 

953 Ml. View Dr. 

Suite #113 

LaFayette, CA 94549 

415/376-6434 

$39.95 

No special requirements. 



is to take your 737 on a typical flight. (Be still my 
heart!) You earn your Captain's wings by completing 
a series of increasingly difficult flights. The final level 
retinites you to overcome severe winds and an engine 
fire. 1 never got anywhere near that far. 

Flight Path 737 forces you to use a mouse, not a 
joystick. After a few minutes, you'll understand why 
you don't see any mice in airplane cockpits. Even at 
the lowest skill level I had trouble taking off. That 
frustration, coupled with the miniscule manual (two 
and a half pages), made me feel like I had no control 
over what was happening. Mavbe the game gets better, 
but I never stuck around to find out. Leave 737 flying 
m professional pilots. 



SkyChase, by Maxis, brings combat back into the 
picture, and with the widest variety of planes. You 
choose your fighter from seven different jets, includ- 
ing two MIGs. Hop in, and you're ready for a series 
of one-on-one dogfights. Unfortunately. SkyChase 
limits you to a single enemy and flies dull, wire-frame 
graphics over thoroughly uninteresting terrain. 

The game's main redeeming feature is that, besides 
battling the computer, you can compete with a friend 
on one Amiga. Each of you gets one of the side-by- 
side displays and instrument panels. Unless you es- 
tablish a fairness pact, SkyChase lets you end the 
dogfight with your friend too quickly: Just fire a 
missile the moment the two jets begin their initial 
flyby. To have a decent war, outlaw any shooting until 
the planes pass each other. 

Hot Shots 

For more strategic combat, take up Harrier Combat 
Simulator from Mindscape. I must confess that, while 
this one seems to be a good game, it did not catch 
my fancy. The main reason is that the game forces 
you to spend too much time on strategy, and not 
enough on fights and flight simulation, You have to 
find the enemy's locations before you can destroy 
them. This involves a long sequence of exploration, 
setting up and moving ground sites, and finally de- 
stroying the enemy headquarters. 

The Harrier is a V/STOL (Vertical/Short Take Off 
and Landing)jet, so you can perform some interesting 
maneuvers. Even the flying and scenery is reasonable. 
If you like exploration mixed with your combat. 1 
recommend you give Harrier a look. 

For me, the top gun is, by far, F/A-18 Interceptor 
from Electronic Arts. It offers exciting missions and 
very good cockpit graphics and sound, including 
details such as the whine of the landing gear retract- 
ing. The scenery is decent, but the pace is so fast that 
you won't want to waste time looking around. F/A- 
18 Interceptor handles the most naturally of the 
bunch; I even enjoyed just Hying it! The heads-up 
display is well-designed, and it puts all the necessary 
information where you can find it quickly. 

The real excitement, of course;, is Hying missions, 
ranging from identifying an enemy plane to rescuing 
a downed pilot. Along the way, you'll have to battle 
squadrons of MIGs. Successfully completing a mission 
entitles you to attempt the next one. Before you em- 
bark on any mission, however, you must land on the 
deck of a carrier, which lakes some practice. While the 
flying itself is very easy, you have to watch a lot of 
gauges and flip a bunch of switches to be a tailhooker. 

As you try to finish each mission to qualify for the 
next, you will also run into Interceptor's biggest flaw: 
It doesn't give you enough information lo complete 
some of the missions. For example, after a little prac- i 



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A BRILLIANT PROFESSOR 

and his beautiful daughter 
have been kidnapped by the 
Nazis. You must get into your 
rocket suit, chase down the 
fleeing Axis zeppelin, vaporize 
the enemy gunner without 
blowing up the blimp, and 
carry your beleaguered compa- 
triots to safety. So goes the 
opening scene of Cinema- 
ware's Rocket Ranger, 

A series of arcade sequences 
built around a map-oriented 
strategy game, Rocket Ranger 
is beautifully detailed with 
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mation, stereo sound effects, 
and digitized speech. Here is a 
superbly crafted tribute to the 
movie serials of long ago, com- 
plete with nefarious Nazis. 
zombie slave women, and 
locket ships that look like the 
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vious efforts, however, is in its 
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play, and its insistent yet unob- 
trusive didacticism. You'll 
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will teach you more world ge- 
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you learned in all of high 
school. 

Rocket Ranger requires your 
character to span the globe in 
a race against time to destrov 
the Axis war machine. The Na- 
zis have reached the moon, 
and have begun mining lunar- 
ium, which fuels their space- 
ships, powers your rocket 
pack, and activates the 
dreaded Nazi bombs. Your job 
is to steal a few rocket parts, 
construct a spaceship, and 
then fly it to the moon for the 
final showdown. Along the 
way, you'll tangle with planes, 
antiaircraft batteries, machine- 
gun nests, Amazon she-devils, 
goo-spitting aliens, and a gag- 
gle of fiendish Nazis. Your 
only defenses are your rocket 
pack and radium pistol, plus a 
wrist monitor and secret de- 
coder wheel sent to you via 
time machine by concerned 
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future that saw the Nazis win 
the war. The scientists are de- 
pending on you to change the 




Strap on your rocket pack and soar! 

course of history. 

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in concept (it's frequently rem- 
iniscent of Defender Of The 
Crown) nor perfect in execu- 
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wheel is hard to decipher). 
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one of the best games on the 
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By Louis R. Wallace 

l.\ PORCH 2081. a remake of 
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must maneuver your spaceship 
into an arena. As you move, 
you leave a trail. When you 
touch a wall, the area you 
have enclosed becomes yours. 



You advance to the next level 
when the total area you have 
claimed meets or exceeds the 
minimum required (the re- 
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level). 



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bounces from wall to wall. 
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aimlessly, it can track your 
ship, and occasionally it fires 
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them; you have no weapons at 
your disposal. 

Every so often, a square ap- 
pears in the arena. Capturing 
some squares can destroy you, 
but most give you a bonus — 
more fuel, an extra ship, or a 
bump to the next level. Every 
fifth level, you face two fire- 
balls (but no border patrols); if 
you can put up a wall between 
them, your score for each level 
thereafter is multiplied. 
Higher levels don't contain 
new challenges, just faster- 
moving objects. Your score de- 
pends on the size of the area 
you claim and the amount of 



fuel with which you finish. 

Torch 2081 asks you to en- 
ter a word from the manual 
upon bootup. While the game 
is easy to learn and play, it 
takes practice to master. Torch 
2081 is not original or particu- 
larly enthralling, but Qix fans 
will enjoy it. 

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Street Sports Basketball 

By Neil RandaU 



ALTHOUGH THE majority of 
sports simulations take place at 
the professional level, most of 
us only know what it's like to 
play sports at the local Y and 
the like. That's what Epyx's 
Street Sports game series is all 
about. 

Street Sports Basketball pits 
two teams of three players each 
against each other. Two human 
opponents can play, or you can 
go up against the computer on 
three levels. Just like real street 
basketball, you must find a 
place to play, choose teams, 
and agree how many points will 
decide the game. 

You can compete on a 
school playground, in a back 
alley, on a driveway in the sub- 
urbs with one basket attached 
to a garage, or in a city park- 
ing lot complete with oil leaks. 
Ten kids are eager to play: 
They range from Butch, the 
future superstar, to Brad, who 
is solid but hardly great. Magic 
is a whiz up close, and Kevin, 
nicknamed "The Brain." is ex- 
tremely accurate but weak de- 
fensively. Melissa is ntv 



favorite because she does 
everything well. 

Once you have determined 
the score needed to win, it's a 
matter of making the shots 
count. This is where Street 
Sports Basketball suffers, espe- 
cially in one-player mode. The 
game is too easy. When one of 
your players runs for the bas- 
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dribbles automatically and 
flawlessly. Also, just a handful 
of moves are available. Turn 
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and push the joystick button 
to pass, or charge the net and 
press the button to shoot; the 
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the type of shot. Long shots 
rarely make it in, and passes 
often go astray, as it should be. 
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Shoot hoop with the neighborhood kids. 



of the ball, or you push the 
button to jump up and block 
the pass or shot. That's the 
whole game. 

I won my first game against 
the easy computer opponent. 
18-4. On the intermediate level 
I won three in a row. After 
eight tries in difficult mode, I 
was five and three. 

The game is a great late- 
night relaxer for two friends, 
and it's a superb game to play 
with kids because they will 
cheer for Melissa or Brad 
much more eagerly than for 



Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. 
The graphics and sound are 
unspectacular, though, and the 
game pales quickly, so unless 
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Too bad — the street sports 
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A RE-CREATION OF the 

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the movement of vour forces. 

The Union commander is 
the first to move his units. 
Next, combat is resolved. Then 
ii's the Confederate player's 
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lions points which, in turn, de- 
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The program's emphasis on 
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Game play can slow to a 
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found that raising the level of 
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Despite these complaints, I 
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AMICQRE 

Transvestor 2500 $44 

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People Meier $53 

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Easyl- A50O S359 

Easyl- A2000 S399 

APPLIED VISIONS 

FutureSoirnd 5144 

(Requires adapter I A500J2000} 

AVATEX 

120Qe Modern $85 

1200HC Modem $115 

2400 Modem $199 

C LTD 

CViewl (NTSCI $39 

C Vtew2(C/L) $39 

Timesaver (A1000) $55 

CALIFORNIA ACCESS 

CA-B80 3.5" Drive 5159 

CREATIVE MICROSYSTEMS 
Processor Accelerator 

(A500/A2000) S174 

Processor Accelerator 

(A1000) $179 

Video Interlace/RF (A500I-..S7S 
Video Interlace (A2000) ..S78 

CSA 

Over 30 Board Call 

68020 Boards Call 

32 Bit RAM Call 

DIGITAL CREATIONS 

SuperGen Call 

ECE 

M1DI-A500 S5S 

MIDI-A1M0 . $58 

MIDI-A2000 S58 

EPSOM 

EX-fiOO w/Color S499 

(All Models Available} 

EXPANSION TECHNOLOGIES 
50MB Hard Drive (A100O] 5879 
32MB Hard Drive (A500) S729 
Escort 1 35" Floppy $154 



GOAMISOI 

Dish Head Cleaner .S15 

30 Disk Case S10 

ImageWnier II Cable Call 

Prtnlec Cable $20 

Modem Cable $20 

Mouse Pad $10 

Sony Cables., S35 

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A2000 Hard Cards Call 

A50O Products Call 

HAITEX 

X-Specs3D tnStQCk' 

HYPEHTEC 

Deluxe MIDI $74 

INKWELL 

Light Pen sgg 

KETIK 

Command Center S82 

Command Center Dlx .....S159 

MAGNI 

Magni 4C00 Genlock . . InStock! 

M.A.S.T. 

Llnidrive $169 

Twin Drive $279 

MICHOBOTICS 

Starboard II (All Sizes) Call 

MultiFunction Module ..$75 

SCSI Module $103 

MS01 5I2KIOIA500 Call 

8Lt((A2000) Call 

Hard frame Call 

Pop SIMMs Call 

We tore SHU Modules lor 8 Up 1 

MICROWAY 

Flicker Filler S469 

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Amigen Genlock $157 

Audio Digitizer $35 

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OKIOATA 

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Var-able Iris Lens S79 

10301 Printer Call 

10911 Printer Call 

PHOENIX 

DPS 500 Power Supply 584 

Sonic Speakers 599 

PHD-500 20MB Hani 
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Mouse Master S31 

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Frame Grabber Call 

Pro Gen Genlock $349 

RONIN 

Hurricanes! flesf Pries 1 

SPIRIT TECHNOLOGY 

1.5MB lor A1000 Call 

STAR MICRONICS 

NX1000 Rainbow S264 

SUNRI2E INDUSTRIES 

Perfect Sound $69 

Perfect Vision $199 

Color Splitter laSlock! 

SURF5IDE 

Masier 3A3.5" $169 

SUPRA 

2400 Modem S154 

Hard Drives Call 

SYNEROr 

A500 Hard Drives Call 

TECHHICOVER 

Cover tor A500 $14 

Cover lor A1OO0 $17 

Cover lor A2000 $1? 

Ml CO 

Trackball $39 

VISUAL AUHALS 

Minclighl 7 $178 

XEROX 

4020 InkJet Printer Call 



ELECTRONIC ARTS SOFTWARE 



Aaargri 1 S25 

A<Jv. Dungeons&Dragons... Call 

Alien Fires $29 

Alternate Reality $29 

Annals of Rome Call 

Arts Paris 2 S19 

Arts Parts I S19 

Awesome Arcade Pak $36 

Bard's Tale $32 

Bard's Tale II... S43 

Band Drakti $26 

Black Cauldran $29 

Chessmasler 2000 ...S30 

Commisioner's Disk Call 

Cosmic Relief S27 

Deluxe Music $63 

Deluxe Paint II SB4 

C""i<>: PIloloLab , S104 

Deluxe Print II Call 

Deluxe Productions $129 

Deluxe Video 1.2 S84 

Earl Weaver Baseball S35 



Empire $36 

Ferrari Formula 1 S36 

First Letters and Words S36 

First Shapes $34 

Gettysburg $42 

Global Commander . S29 

Hot & Coo Jazz Disk $19 

Hunt For Red October $36 

Instant Music $32 

Instant Music Data $19 

Inlellitype $35 

Imerceptor ..$37 

Kampfgruppe S46 

KidTalfc.. $34 

Leisure Suit Larry S35 

Mad Libs S16 

Marble Madness $32 

Master Ninja Call 

Math Talk $34 

Math Talk Fractions S34 

Mavis Beacon $33 

Phantasie $31 

Pub Games S26 



Questran II Call 

Ouizam S25 

Reach For The Stars $33 

Return To Atlantis $36 

Ftoadwar 2000 S32 

Roadwar Europa S31 

Roadwars $26 

Rockford ,.S26 

Rubicon Alliance Call 

Scrabble $29 

Seasons & Holidays $19 

Skyloxli $29 

Smooth Talker $36 

Sorcerer Call 

Speller Bee $34 

Thexder $26 

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BFigpERflUHD 

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TV'SriWr SW 

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Zuma Fonts .... Cad 

RllrHA VISTA 

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JstSel $35 

Jet Set Font Sets Call 

CADCOM 
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T □£> 2 Dis* $37 

T DOS 2 Dos 537 

Quarterback. S54- 

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SOI S31 

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CQ5MI 

Defcon5 $23 

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CRYSTAL ROSE 

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KeyloCfV. 2 02| 525 

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FmePnnt $36 

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D1GITEK 

t Amegas $24 

t Clevef S Smart $24 

Drum Studio S35 

Final MissFon Call 

▼ Gunshot $2^ 

teJ Hole In One 525 

Hollywood POker CaH 

Thunder Boy S26 

▼ Vampire's Empire $30 
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Critic's Ctmice $173 

Kind Words [New Ver) Can 

^-SuperBac*. Call 

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Afvanoid $23 

} ,-' Betler Dead Ttun Men $23 

GraDOU $24 

«,..' HySns S26 

Maiaudeill $26 

i;i -' Swora ol Social Call 

Virus Infection Protechon. .532 

▼ Zoom, S20 

DISK COUNT SW 

Spelling Tutor $21 

Vocabulary Tutor $21 

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KCS $177 

MIDI Recording Studio m 

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•rlheCcpyisl 5149 

EAGLE TREE SOFTWARE 

Butcher 2 S25 

EASEWAHE 

Hone Builders Cad $139 

EIOERSOFT 

Amga Karate $24 

Casino Fever 529 

>,,*' Pic Sound Designer C*H 

EUN 

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ELIPSYS 

▼ Encore $*5 

EMERALD INTELLIGENCE 

u,.' Magelian $129 

EPYH 

•-California Games.. . . Call 

Dealh Sword S*7 

Destroyer Call 

m Di\e Bomber S3-7 

tj,- 1 Four By Four S31 

Imaossible Mission II $37 

tj.- 1 Space Station MSfuc*' 

Street Cal Call 

Sub Battle $34 

ESCA'E SEQUENCE 

Photosynthesis S1D8 

FIREBIRD 

Bi!C*(Lamp $19 

Carrier Command. $33 

i;,.' Corruption ft Slock* 

Enlightenment . . . S'9 

Guld 0-5 Thieves... . .532 

Jewels of Darkness $25 

Kmght Ore $34 

Pawn $32 

Simeon Dreams $25 

ifcj Space Cuner S20 

StarGider $33 

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i;,J Univ. M*tarySim InSiotf.' 

tiiJ Virus $21 

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■*■ r'. r -:: ( ' , .';--.-;'E Ci 

wPnnwTime CaU 

•- TwMight Zone Call 

FREE SPIRIT 

...- 1 Securrties Analyst $56 

■i,- 1 Sex Vixens From Space . ..$29 
Ultimate Dos Jfils S46 

Fit 
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FULLER COMPUTING 

Protect D (New Ver) $37 

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GOLD DISK 

CumcSetlsr S74 

Com^ Seller Data DisVs Can 
Font Sel 1 52S 

Gold Spe^i 2 534 

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Page Setter $94 

*- Professional Draw Call 

Professional Page 1.1 Call 

GRAPHIC E* PRESS ID N$ 

Mastering CLl S29 

HAITEX 

ADrums Call 

Haicalc .....$44 

HASH ENTERPRISES 

Aii-malion Effecls $35 

A-wratwn Muftipfane . In S?0&' 

Animation Stand. SS5 

Animator Jf $56 

Animator. Apprentice Call 

Apprentice Libraries CaH 

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Aesop's Fables $19 

Ctncfcen LrDJe $19 

LitlleRed Hen Sl9 

Theee Lflie Pigs S19 

Ugly Duckling 522 

HYPERTEK 

GDIWF! (Laiest Version) ft 

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Realm ol flu Warlock 525 
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Turbo Sirver $124 



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^Go - Can 

Grand Slam Tennis . .$33 
"▼ Hot UCks $34 

▼ Shakespeare vi 1 51^5 
IHNDVISION 

Video Ellecls 30 $142 

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CAPE6SK S65 

EnovaTocis S57 

▼ Power Windows 2 5 S63 
INTELUGEHT MEMORY 

w Emmelic Skimrre' CaJi 

Galaxy Fight S23 

Garrison S36 

Garnsoflli Call 

Mouseirap $20 

TurboPrml $36 

a- Witchcraft S35 

INTERACTIVE SOFTWORKS 

Calligiapher IK S79 

Lion's Calligralcnts CaU 

Newsletter Fonts $32 

Studio Fonts S32 

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▼ BattPe Chess $34 

JDK IMAGES 

▼ Pro Video Plus $199 

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PV+ (ea) .579 

KARA 

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City Dslsnsc $16 

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--Conlra $31 

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•- Rush n Attack Call 

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Wt .'C++ $349 

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The B;q Picture ... S23 

LYNH'S LUNA C 

WB Exlras S25 

MAGIC BYTES 

Pink Panther ..$34 

MAGNETIC IMAGES 

pip Art Disks 1-B (Each).. .515 

MANX 

Library Source S199 

Aztec C-Dn $199 

Aztec G-Prol S14S- 

Source Level Debugger $57 

MARKSMAN 

PHASAR3 . 561 

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Kickstarl2 51? 

Ntnja Mission S16 

Space Ranger ....SIS 

MERIDIAN SOFTWARE 

Demonstrator S27 

Zmgl $49 

ZmgiKeys $36 

Zinfl! Spell . S57 

METACOMCO 

Cambmflge LISP $154 

ISOPastaUiNewVe*SH>n|... CaJ 

Macro Assemc4er $79 

Shell . . $45 

TodKit .. £35 

METADIGM 

Metascope S79 

METRON 

,JT Shell $34 

M1CHTRDN 

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--Cashman S24 

Karate Ktd II -S2B 

MICROOEAL 

Insanity Fiptfl 525 

,-' fnlernatwnal Soccer..... S23 

LeathernecKs S29 



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Slaygon $29 

▼ Tanglewood $57 

; ,J Tetra Ouasi $27 

Time Bandits $26 

;,-' Zero Gravity S21 

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Gclden Pyramid Call 

MICRO ILLUSIONS 

Black Jack Academy S29 

▼ Craps Academy ,....., ,526 
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Ebonstar $29 

Faery Tale $34 

Galactic Invasion S19 

«- Land of Legends . Soon' 

wVi-jteX $219 

Photon Parnt . .569 

Photon Paint Eipansion $23 

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.,,.' Photon Vrf Cel Animator. . Cal 

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Romantic Encounters $29 

Tiaccts. S27 

* Turbo .119 

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forms in Flight 2 $30 

MICRO MASTFII 
.;,-' Family Tree $36 

MIDRDPROSE 
S*entSewa $24 

MlCROSEAfiCH 

Cty Desk $110 

H;ad Coach 539 

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TiEdPlui $57 

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Aialyje^O S74 

B3SPC S106 

Eieeitence 1 Si64 

Fhpside 1 $31 

Online! 542 

Ofganizs' SE3 

Scribble' . .561 

▼ Toe Works" $125 

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*i„" Pattern SpJatler ... toStcc** 
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Ultttes l $40 

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Balance of Power $31 

Blockbuster S27 

Capla:n Bfood Can 

De^Vu . 532 

Harrier Combat $35 

Ice Hookey .533 

Indoor Spons $35 

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Perfect Score SAT $52 

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PaJadm Scenano 519 

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Crossword Creator 535 

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Access 64 Call 

CLImate $25 

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IntroCAD $63 

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PraASM Cal 

Pro Board $425 

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Arena S15 

Barbarian $27 

.,,„' Chrono Quasi $34 

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Terrorpods S2B 

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Doug's Math Aguarum $59 

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final Trip $18 

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Space F»ght $13 

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Investor's Adttfinp $79 

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Patch Editors Call 

Text ure (For Real') Call 

SPECTRUM HDLOBYTE 

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Seconds Out Boning ... $21 
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Siud* Magic 575 

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Fre& Forget S27 

Cfl Shore Warrior. . In Stock' 

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Runtime Package $109 

True BASIC $74 

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Aesop's Fable S33 

All About America $42 

Animal Kingdom 535 

Arabian N>gnts 535 

Fraction Actiion . 533 

KinrJerama S33 

■«- Logic Master. . CaU 

Magical Myths $3S 

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Read-A-Rama $33 

Word Master 535 

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Art Gallery 1 or 2 $20 

Faitasy ... Cal 

Fonts I Borders Can 

Print Master Plus $33 
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ARexx $39 

W Shell $39 

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Don 't look for the groundhog or his shadow this 
month . . . he's busy with these new products! 



Compiled by Jan Jackson 



Sum of the Parts 

SYNERGY PERIPHERAL SYS- 
TEMS annnounces Hard Disk 
Plus, a hard drive for the 
A500 with SCSI host/control- 
ler. You can get the unit in 20 
and 30-mcg configurations 
(S749.95 and S899.95, respec- 
tively), or in custom format, 
which includes the installation 
of any hard drive you request. 
The unit comes with software 
utilities, and supports auto- 
booting and the Fast File Svs- 
tem. An optional two-meg 
RAM add-on sells for $269.95. 

SCSI host/controller, hard- 
drive enclosure, power supply, 
cables, and software together 
make up the Hard Disk CR kit 
($319.95) for the A500. Just 
add an embedded SCSI S 54- 
inch Seagate drive, and you've 
got yourself a complete 
system! 

The SCSI Host 2000 control- 
ler auto-configures, auto-boots 
from your hard disk, and sup- 
ports the Fast File System. You 
can mount any 3 V? -inch slim- 
line hard drive on the card, 
which retails for Si 79.95 

You can get the sum total, 
or any part, of this hardware 
line from Synergy Peripheral 
Systems. 5638 Allen Ave., Suite 
3, San Jose, CA 95123, 408/ 
972-2434. 



I Can C for Miles 

LATTICE C for AmigaDOS 
Version 5.0 gives full support 
for 68020 and 68030 proces- 
sors and 68881 math coproces- 
sor chips. Lattice Inc. promises 
faster library routines from 
improved algorithms and as- 
sembly-language coding and 
offers improved ANSI compli- 
ance. The Lattice Screen Edi- 
tor is now part of the 
compiler package. A full- 



screen source-level debugger 
with symbolic and concurrent 
process support allows you to 
open multiple windows and 
single step through programs. 
set breakpoints on C source 
lines, and examine variables 
and code at the C language or 
assembly-language level. The 
assembler will generate 68020 
and 68881 instructions. Other 
improvements include an up- 



Designing Minds 

ADD A NEW demension to 
your creativity with a model- 
ing package. For $99.95, Gold 
Disk's Design-3D lets you 
model in wire frames with six 
line types and 16 colors plus 



dithering and flat shading. 
Four views are provided — top, 
side, front, and perspective — 
with four light sources. Axial 
extrusion allows symmetrical 
modeling, or objects can be 
imported from VidcoScapc 3D 




dated disassembler, a new 
global optimizer, a new code 
profiler to improve efficiency, 
and a utility to convert Com- 
modore FD files into pragma 
statements. The complete 
package is $300; upgrades are 
available to registered users 
for S75. The new version is 
available form Lattice Inc., 
2500 S. Highland Ave., Lom- 
bard, IL 60148, 312/916-1600. 



(Aegis). Design 3-D supports 
text. The package includes 
fonts and a font editor. For 
more information, call Gold 
Disk. PO Box 789, Streetsville, 
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, 
L5M 2C2, 416/828/7754. 

PAGErender 3D from Mind- 
ware International is a profes- 
sional 3-D rendering and 
animation system that comes 
with stereo-vision glasses. You 
can build or restructure your 
own objects or use the object 
library. With the tools pro- 
vided, move your images along 
a path or make them acceler- 
ate, decelerate, rotate, or spin. 
PAGErender 3D sells for 
SI 59.95 from Mindware Inter- 
national, 110 Dunlop St. W., 
Box 22158, Barrie, Ontario, 
Canada L4M 5R3, 705/737- 
5998. *■ 



Create spatially with Deslgn-3D 



74 Febnum 1989 



INTRODUCING 

BROADCAST TITLER 

BROADCAST QUALITY CHARACTER GENERATOR 
FOR THE AMIGA™ 

BREAKS THE AMIGA RESOLUTION BARRIER I 

2160 x 1440 Effective Resolution - Eliminates "Jaggies" 

Customized High - Definition Video Fonts 

Accepts Popular AMIGA and COLOR FONTS 

Automatically Boosts Fonts to 2160 x 1440 

No Additional Hardware Required-Full 736x480 Overscan 

DAZZLING COLORS ! 

320 High Resolution Colors per Page from 4,096 Palette 

Displays Multiple IFF Pictures and COLOR FONTS on a Page 

16 Separate Colors for EACH LINE of Text and Graphics 

Colorful Automatic Backgrounds and Patterns 

SIMPLY AMAZING ! 

Over 100 Silky-Smooth Page and Line Transitions 

ROLL, TUMBLE, TELETYPE, FLIP, SPLIT, SLIDE and MANY MORE 

Live Preview Channel plus Dissolves with SuperGen™ 

Up to 1000 Pages of Text and Graphics Storage 

Easy Keyboard Editing 

WORLDS APART FROM THE REST! 

Only $299.95- Requires 1.5 Megabytes 



VIDEO EFFECTS 3D 

POWERFUL 3D VIDEO EFFECTS SOFTWARE 
FOR THE AMIGA™ 

NETWORK STYLE 3D EFFECTS ! 

3D Perspective TUMBLES, TURNS, SPINS and ZOOMS 

Creates Effects with High Resolution 8 - Color IFF Screens 

Extrudes 3D Solid Logos from Flat Text 

Super Smooth Playback at 60 Fields per Second 

PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE ! 

Used by Video Professionals World Wide 

High End Alternatives can Cost $300 per Effect 

Easy to Use Control-Panel-Style Menus 

Real-Time Wire Frame Preview 

PERFECT FOR SPICING-UP YOUR VIDEO PRODUCTIONS ! 

Only $199.95-- Requires 1 Megabyte 

INNOV1SION TECHNOLOGY- P.O. BOX 743 - HAYWARD, CA - 94543 - (415)538-8355 
Amiga™ is a registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines, Inc. 
SuperGen™ is a registered trademark of Digital Creations, Inc. 



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Frozen Freedom Fighters 

WHERE IS ADMIRAL Byrd 
when you need him? Mind- 
ware International's Aunt Arc- 
tie Adventure plants you in 
the great white north with 
Charlie the Chimp and Pen- 
guin Pete to help rescue Char- 
lie's aunt from Big Boris, the 



evil ringmaster. For S39.95 you 
get a 50-level arcade game that 
supports two-player team play 
or solo modes. Mindware In- 
ternational is located at I 10 
Dunlop St., West, Box 22158 
Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4M 
5R3 705/737-5998. 




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Keep a stiff upper lip; help Is coming. 



More Advantageous 

AN IXVESTMENT-analysis 
program. Investor's Advantage 
2,0, now prints sequential lines 
in different colors, and you 
can combine different studies 
(old and new) on one screen. 
The upgrade promises a more 
flexible interface, more plot 
points for on-screen graphs, 
zoom capability for graphs, 
and numerical readouts of 



price and moving averages. 
Advantage 2.0 requires an in- 
vestment of $99.95 for first- 
time buyers; registered owners 
can upgrade for S25 (updates 
are free for purchases after 
May 1, 1988). Your broker is 
Software Advantage Consult- 
ing, 37346 Charter Oaks Blvd., 
Mt. Clemens, MI 48043, 313/ 
463-4995. 



Good for the Environment 



DIGITAL DYNAMICS intro- 
duces SNIP, a digital signal-pro- 
cessing program that promises 
to provide a flexible, interac- 
tive environment for analyzing 
signals from a range of instru- 
mentation. Snip is geared to- 
ward users with scientific 
applications in mind. You can 
displav mi ire data on the 
screen at once bv presenting 
numbers in graphs. Subsets 



may also be displayed upon re- 
quest. Snip loads up to 20 chan- 
nels of data, performs 
calculations between subsets, 
and is capable of displaying up 
to 20 subsets simultaneously. 
Snip is available for $495 from 
Digital Dynamics, 739 Navy St., 
Santa Monica. CA 90405. ►- 



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on HARDDRIVES for your A2000 

r-rtrrr-i We will format the drive using ____. 

rHfcfc! the New FASTFILE System FREE! 

SCSI 48MG 28ms 3.5 Hdrivew/Cltd Control $769.00 

SCSI 20mg w/Cltd Control 3 5 Hd rive 569.00 

SCSI 45mg 5.25 Hdrive w/CIW Control 649 00 

SCSI 45mg 5.25 Hdrive w/GVP 1mg Ok Conlrol 749.00 

SCSI 45mg 5.25 Hdnve w/GVP 2mg Ok Conlrol 769 00 

SCSI 48mg 28ms 3.5 Hdrive w/GVP Ok Control 889 00 

SCSI 48mg 40ms 3 5 Hdrive w/GVP Ok Control 740.00 

SCSI 65mg 40ms 5.25 Hdrive w/Cltd Control 699,00 

SCSI dSrng 40ms 5.25 Hdrive w/GVP Ok Control 799 00 

SCSI 32mg 28ms 3.5 Hdrive w/GVP 2mg Ok Control .. . 710.00 



SPECIAL! DIGI-VIEW "VERSION 3.0" 

Digi-View W/WV1410 Camera & Lens 16mm & Copy Stand . . . S399 00 

Perfect Vision 'SPECIAL'* 179 00 

PRO-GEN "SPECIAL" 366 00 

SUPERGEN 66900 

WE WILL MATCH ANY PRICE ON 
HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE! 
1-800-752-0050 



ENTERTAINMENT 



Aaargh S27.O0 

Alien Ftres 30.00 

Allernate Reality 3000 

Andromeda 33.00 

Arazok'sTomb 29. 00 

Archon II 3000 

Artie Fox 28.00 

Arkanoid 23 00 

Aulo Duel 30.00 

Awesome Arcade ...... 34.00 

Balance of Power 35.00 

Barbarian 29.00 

Bard's Tale 35.00 

Bards Tale II 42.00 

Battle Chess 35 00 

Seller Dead Than Alien ..27 00 
Championship Baseball ■ 29 00 
Championship Basketball 29.00 

Black Cauldron 30 00 

Black Jack Academy ... 29 00 

Black Lamp f7.00 

Black Shadow 27.00 

Breach 29 00 

Bridge 5 22.00 

Bubble Ghost 28 00 

Capone 29 00 

Captain Blood 35.00 

Carrier Command 33 00 

Casino Fever 29 00 

Center Fold 25 00 

Chessmasler 2000 ..... 35 00 

City Defense 15.00 

Clever & Smart .... 24.00 

Corru ptton 31 .00 

Cosmic Relief ...... 27.00 

Crazy Cars 29 00 

Cube Master 20,00 

Dark Castle 29.00 

Death Sword 18.00 

DeepSpace 24 00 

Defcon 5 29 0C 

Defender of the Crown . 34 00 

DejaVu 34.00 

Destroyer 29.00 

Detonator ...27.00 

Diablo IB. 00 

Dr. Xes 33.00 

Earl Weaver Baseball . . . 35.00 

Ebonstar 27.00 

Emerald Mines 17.00 

Empire 35.00 

Faery Tale Adventure . . . 33 00 

Famous Courses 15 00 

Fantavision 42 00 

Ferrari Formula One ■ . . 3S 00 

Final Assault 33.00 

Fire Power 18 00 

FireN Forget 30.00 

Flight Path 737 18.00 

Flight Simulator ....... 35 00 



FREE!! 

Mou»e Holder 

With Purchase 

From SfD0.0OtoS149.00 



Championship Foofball . 

4lh And Inches 

Footman 

Formula I 

Frost Byte 

Galactic Invasion ....... 

Galaxy Fight 

Galileo li 

Garrison 

Garrison II 

Gee Bee Air Rally 

Gettysburg ., 

Giganoid 

Global Commander 

Golden Path 

Golden Pyramid 

Gold Runner 

Grand Prix 

Grand Slam Tennis 

GridSlart 

Guild of Thieves 

Gunshoot 

Hacker II 

Hard Ball 

Harrier Combat Simulator 

Head Coach 

Hex 

Hole tn One Mini Golf ■ ■ ■ 

Hollywood Poker 

Hunt tor Red October ... 

Hybr.s 

Impossible Mission II .... 

Indoor Sporls - 

Insanity Fight 

Inlercepler F/18 

Into the Eagles Nest . 

Jet 

Jewels of Darkness 

Jinxter 

Joker Poker 

Kampfgruppe 

Karate King ............ 

King of Chicago 

Knight Ore 

King's Quest 

King's Quesl II 

King's Quesl III 

Karate Kid II 

tarry 

Leader Board 

Leather Neck 

Leisure Suil Larry ....... 

Ma|0r motion 

Marble Madness 

Menace 

Mind Walker 

Moebius 

Obliteralor 

Oft Shore Warrior 

Paladin 

The Pawn 

Phantasie 

Phantasie [II 



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1800 
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1600 
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33 00 
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35.00 
22.00 
35.00 
42.00 
29,00 
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29 00 
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29.00 
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FREEH 

Moute Pid 

With Purchase 

From S1S000 to S249.00 




Orders Over S400.00Recreve 13 Amiga Dos 



Pink Panther 29.01 

Plutos 22. Of 

Pons of Call 33.01 

P.O.W 30.01 

Q-Ball I.. 20.01 

Queslron 37.0< 

Quintette 29.CX 

Return to Atlantis 35. Ot 

Hoadwar 2000 29.0( 

Rondwar Europa 29. 0( 

Road War 29 -0< 

Robbeary IB 0C 

Rocket Ranger 35. C< 

Rocklord 26.CK 

Romantic Encounter 29.0E 

Sargon III 33. 0C 

Scenery Disk 11 19.0C 

Scenery Disk 7 19. OX 

Scenery Disk Europe 190C 

Scenery Disk Japan 19.QC 

Scrabble 30.0c 

S.D.I 33 oe 

Second Out 22. OC 

Sex Vixens 2B.0C 

Shadow Gate 33.0C 

Shanghai 29. 0C 

Silent Service 29.0C 

Silicon Dreams 20.0C 

Sinbad 33 0C 

Sky Chase 30.98 

SkytDk 17.0C 

Skyfoklt 29. a 

Slay Gun 29. 0C 

Smoothlalker 35. 0C 

Space Battle 21. 0C 

Space Cutter 22.0C 

Space Fight 2t.oc 

Space Quest 35.0C 

Space Quest II 36.0C 

Slarfleel I 39-OC 

Star Glider 30. OC 

Star Glider li 34. 0C 

Star Wars 33. OC 

Stellar Conflict 29 DC 

Streets Basketball 15 DC 

Strip Poker 29.0C 

Sub Battle 350C 

Summer Challenge ..... 15. 0C 

Super Huey 29.0C 

Super Star Hockey 35.0C 

The Surgeon 33.0C 

Tanglewood 29.0X 

Telegames 23.0C 

Temple of Apshai 17.0C 

Terrorpods 29-0C 

Tesldnve 33.0C 

Tetra Quesl 30-0C 

Thexder 26.0C 

Three Slooges . 33.0C 

Thunder Boy 23.0C 

Time Bandit 29.0C 

Tourch 2081 18-0C 

TV Sports Football 35-OC 



FREE!! 

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With Purchase 

From $250.00 to S399.00 

Mouse Pad & Holder or 

Quick Shot Joystick 



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ENTERTAINMENT 



Tracers 25-00 

Ultima III 29.00 

Uninvited 33.00 

Vampire Empire 30.00 

Video Vegas 25 00 

Warlock 27.00 

W C. LeaCerboard ■ ■ 32 00 

Winter Challenge 2B.00 

Witchcraft 25 00 

Word Plei 24.00 

World Tour Goir 29.00 

X Specs 3-D 10500 

Zoom 2200 



SOUND & MUSIC 



Audio Master $39 00 

Back Songbook 99.00 

D-50 ... 99 00 

Dynamic Drums 53.00 

Deluxe Music . .. 69 00 

Dr Drums 104.00 

Dr. Keys 104-00 

Dr. T p s Keyboard 170.00 

Dynamic Studio 139.00 

Dx Heaver 104.00 

Hot Cool Jar; 21.00 

Hot Licks 34.00 

Instant Music ■ 35 00 

Matrix 6 ■■ 104.00 

MT-32 104.00 

Music Student 41.00 

Promidi Studio 13400 

Rock & Roll 22 00 

4-Op Deluxe 99.00 

Sonix 5300 

Sound Sampler 80 00 

Sludio Magic 69 00 

Synthia 62.00 

Texture 105 00 



CB Tree $69 00 

Celebrity Cook Book 22.00 

Custom Screens 39 00 

Cygnused Professional 69.00 

Dos 2 Dos 39.00 

Doug's Math Aquarium 57 00 

Disk 2 Disk 35.00 

Disk Master , 35.00 

Encore 45.00 

Face II 2500 

Fine Print 35.00 

Fleet Check 35 00 

Flip Side 39.00 

Gold Spell 32 00 

Gomr 29,00 

Grabbit 24.00 

Laser up: Fonts 30.00 

Laser up Plot 35.00 

Laser up: Print 52 00 

Laser Sclpts ., 30.00 

Laser up: Utilities 30.00 

Lexcheck Word Checker 35 00 

LV Backup Harddisk 35 00 

Mulli Preferences 22.00 

Project D , . , . . ,....,.,.. 35.00 

Promis Spelling 35.00 

Pro Script 35.00 

Quaterback 47.00 

SysFont 24 00 

TDI-Edilor Source 35.00 

TDI-Examples 1800 

TDI-Grid Access ... 35 00 

TDI-Kermit 22.00 

Text Ed Plus 52 00 

VI P 35 00 



BUSINESS ACCOUNTING 



The Accountant $199 00 

B EST Bus. Accts 310 00 

B EST General Ledger . 75.00 

Financial Plus 199.0G 

investors Advantage 69 00 

MiAmiga Ledger 65 00 

Micro Lawyer 40 00 

Nimbus Rec'd Keeper .,.,.,.. 99 00 



HOME ACCOUNTINO 



Money Menlor $67 00 

Phaser 67 00 



HARD DISK DRIVES 



32mg 3.5 SCSI Drv 28ms .- S59900 
32mg 3 5 SCSI Drv 40ms . . 445 00 
20mg 3.5 SCSI Drv 6Sms ... 399 00 
48mg 3 5 SCSI Drv 2Bms ... 645.00 
48mg 3 5 SCSI Drv 40ms ■■■ 565 00 
42mg 5.25 SCSI Drv 40ms . . 47900 
42mg ST506 5-25 Drv 40ms ... 415 00 
65mg SCSI Drv 5 25 40ms .. 525.00 
150 mg SCSI Drv 5 25 28ms ... 1295 00 
CLTD33mg A500'A1000 •■■ 845.00 
GVP 20mg A5O0 W/Mem . . . 769.00 

GVP-Controller lmgOk 275 00 

GVP-Controller2mg0k 299.00 

CLTD-ControilerAlOOO 275.00 

CLTD-Controller AS00 275 00 

CLTD-Adaptec 4000 159 00 



CAD SYSTEMS 



Draw 2000 S189.00 

Home Builders Cad 137.00 

Intro Cad ■■■ 55.00 

Logic Works 67.00 

X-Cad System 395.00 



DATABASE MANAGEMENT 



Acquisition S205 00 

Data Retrieve 55.00 

Data Retrieve Prol 199.00 

Dbman 139.00 

Microliche Filer - - . 68.00 

Microfiche Filer Plus 12300 

Organize 85.00 

Rolobase Plus - - ■ ■ 59.00 

SoflwodC File II GS 82.00 

Superbase 99 00 

Superbase Professional ■ ■■■ 199.00 



DISKETTES 



Centech 3-5 DS.PD Disks . 
Centech 5.25 DS/HD Disks 
Fu|i 3.5 DS/DD Color Disks 

Sony 3 5 DS/DD 

TDK 3 S DS/OD Disks 



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DESKTOP PUBLISHING 



City Desk S103.00 

City Desk Companion 20.00 

City Desk Companion 2 20. 00 

Page Setter 102.00 

Professional Page 269.00 

Publisher Plus 69 00 

Shakespeare 145.00 



Alps Allegro 24 PIN S425.00 

NEC LC890 Laser PS 3500.00 

Okimale 20 Clr Prt. 145.00 

Okimate Plug'n Print 85.00 

Slar NX Rainbow 259.00 

Xerox 4020 Ink Jet 1295 00 

Xerox 4020 Starter Kit 165 00 



WORD PROCESSORS 



Becker Text S950O 

Excellence 199.00 

Flow Idea Processor 65 00 

Kindwords 69.00 

LPD Writer 79.00 

LPD Writer Unprotected B9 00 

Prownte20 83 00 

Reason 259 00 

Texlpro 5500 

Viza Write 60.00 

WordPerfect 210.00 

WP Library 8500 



GRAPHICS A VIDEO 



3-Demon S74 00 

Animation w/lmages 92 00 

Animator Apprentices ..... 1S9 00 
Animation Elfects .......... 35 00 

Animate 3-D 10200 

Animation Multiplane 65.00 

Animation Stand 35 00 

Architechlual Design 25.00 

Art Gallery 1 22.00 

Art Gallery II 22,00 

Art Pakl 22.00 

Art Parts II 22.00 

Art Parts I 22-00 

Butcher 29.00 

CalligrapherHelp 29.00 

Color Splitters 79.00 

Comicsetter - 69.00 

The Director 49.00 

Deluxe Paint II 95.00 

Deluxe Photo Lab 10900 

Deluxe Production 139.00 

Deluxe Video II 95.00 

Digi-Paint 45 00 

Digi-PaintHelp 24.00 

Digi-View KOOO 

DpaintHelp 24.00 

E/FX Station Mgr 195.00 

Express Paint 6900 

Forms in Flight It 82.00 

Future Design 3-D 25.00 

Graphic Studio 39.00 

Human Design 3-D 25 00 

Impact 57.00 

Invision 115.00 

Lights. Camera. Action S3 00 

Modeler 3-D 67.00 

Page Flipper 3? 00 

Page Flipper FX 105.00 

Perfect Vision 175.00 

Photon Paini 69.00 

Photon Exp Disk 22 00 

Photon Paint Help 2400 

Pix-Mate 45 00 

Print Master Plus 35 00 

Prism 45.00 

Pro Result Using Dpaint .... 39.00 

Pro Video Plus 199.00 

Pro Video Plus Set I 8900 

Pro Video Plus Set II . 89.00 

Sculpt 3-D 67 00 

Turbo Silver 129 00 

TV-Show 67.00 

TV-Txl 67 00 

Video Ellecls 3-D 138 00 

Video Scape 3-D 129.00 

Video Tiller 102.00 



Hard Card Specials, . . 



GVP Hard Cards 



A jto Boot w/1 .3 
30mg 40ms Ace. S679 
48mg 40ms Ace. S789 
4Bmg 28ms Ace. S369 
40mg 11ms Ace. S819 
BOmg 11msS1299 



MIB Hard Frame/2000 



Auto Boot w/1 .3 (20% 

tester than any 

controller) 

Card capable of 5MSS 

transfer rate 

30mg 40ms Ace. S6G5 

48mg 40ms Ace. S779 

413 ;ng 28ms Ace. £059 

40 mg 1 1 ms Ace. S049 

aomg 1 1 ms Ace. 51 199 

Call for Specials on AMIGA 500 



HARDWARE 



Accelerator $159,00 

Air Drive 3.S 169 00 

Amigen 165.00 

Easyl 10OO 369.00 

Easyl 2000 39500 

Easyl 500 359.00 

Flicker Fixer 495 00 

Future Sound 139.00 

Go 64 59 00 

Internal 3.5drive A2000 ... 129.00 
Live Frame Grabber A1000 . . . 279.00 
Live Frame Grabber A500 - ■ ■ 315,00 

Multifunction Card 89.00 

Pro Gen 379,00 

Perfect Sound A1000 69.00 

Perfect Sound A50O/2O00 69.00 

Slarboard A1000 51 2k 49900 

Subsystem A500 210.00 

Supra Modem 2400bd 169 00 

WV1410 Panasonic Cam 219.00 

Spirit l.Smg exp A500 210.00 

A10O0 Refurbished 599.00 

8UP Memory Expansion 175.00 

Pop Sims Ok 2 Pair 8500 

Otec 386 20rnhz System . . - ■ 2895 00 

Frame Grabber 555 00 

Star Bd 2mg Populated 1095 00 

1010 External Drive 199 00 

MC68881 Math Co-procr 199 00 



ACCESSORIES 



A-B Switch Cable S32.O0 

A'B/C.'D Switch box 65 00 

A-Time Plus 49,00 

Copy Stand 60 00 

ECE Midi Interface 1000 52 00 

ECE Midi Intface 500/2000 . . . 52.00 

EpyxSOOXJ Joystick 18.00 

Ergo Joystick 18 00 

Flicker Master 14.00 

Gander Changer NT 27,00 

Gender Changer 24.00 

Gravis Joystick 39.00 

Modem Cable Al 000 17.00 

Modem Cable 2000/500 17 00 

Md120 3 5 Disk Holder 35.00 

MQ60 3 5 Disk Holder 2B 00 

Md64 3 5 Disk Holder 31.00 

Amiga 500 Mouse 79.00 

Mouse Holder ...,,......,... . 6 50 

Mouse Pads 9.00 

Monitor Stand w/outlets 50.00 

Mouse Master 30.00 

NX Star Black Ribbon 800 

NX Star Color Ribbon 12.00 

Okimala Black Ribbon 5.00 

Okimate Color Ribbon 7 50 

Power Strip 6 Outlets 17 00 

Printer Cable A100O 17.00 

Printer Cable A500 17 00 

Quick Shot Joystick 1500 

Time Saver 85 00 

Track Ball Ibutton Mouse .... 40 00 
Track Ball Jbulton Mouse .... 40 00 

Xerox 4020 Ink 30.00 

Xerox 4020 Flued 28 00 

Xerox 4020 500/Sheet 28 O0 



A500/A1000/A2QOO 
PERIPHERALS 



1084 Monitor S325 00 

A1010 External Diskdrive 220.00 

A1020S. 25 External Drive ...215.00 
A1680 1200 Baud Modem . . 125 00 
A2052 2rnb Ram Expansion . 595 00 
Bridge Card w/5 25 Drive ■■ 569.00 

A2O90 Harddisk Cllr 325 00 

A501 512k Mem A50O CPU -169 00 



INTERGRATED SOFTWARE 



Critic's Choice ., 5169.00 

The Works , 139 00 



MONITORS 



Panasonic 8cmS15 S325 00 

Seiko CM1430 Monitor 750 00 

Sony Multi-scan Monitor .... 575.00 

Thompson Monitor 255 00 

Zenith Flat Screen 750.00 



EDUCATIONAL 



Adventure of Sinbad $35,00 

Aesop's Fables 35.00 

All About America 3800 

Animal Kingdom 35 00 

Decimal Dungeon 3500 

Discovery Game Spell 29.00 

Discovery Game Math 29.00 

Expansion Disk Math .... 26.00 

Firsl Letters 1 Words 3500 

First Shapes 35.00 

Fraction Action 33.00 

Grade Manager 59.00 

Greatstates 2B.00 

Kidtalk 35.00 

Kinderama 3300 

Learning Curve 55.00 

Link Word French 22.00 

Link Word German ,, 22.00 

Link Word Italian 22.00 

Link Word Russian 22.00 

Link Word Spanish 22 00 

MathTalk 35,00 

Math Talk Fractions 35.00 

Math Wizard 35 00 

Perfect Score , 5500 

Quiz Master , , , 55 00 

Read-A-Rama 3300 

Read & Rhyme 33 00 

Speller Bee 35 00 

Tales from Arabia 33.00 

Wordma Iter 33 00 



LANGUAGES 



A/C Basic S139.00 

A/C Fortran 195.00 

Macro Assemb ler 69.00 

Arexx 35 00 

Assem Pro 69.00 

Azlec C Developer 199.00 

Aztec C Professional 135.00 

Benchmark C Library 65.00 

Benchmark Iff Library 57 00 

Benchmark Modula 2 ,- 139. DO 

Benchmark Simplified 67.00 

Cape 68k 63.00 

Dissasembler 48 00 

Inovatoolsd 55.00 

Lattice C 139 00 

Latt.ceCPius 3B9.00 

Lattice C Professional 265.00 

Library's Sources 199 00 

Metacomco Lisp 139.00 

Metacomco Pascal 97.00 

Metacomco Shell 49.00 

Metascope Debugger 67.00 

Power Window V2 5 6500 

Tne Power System Pecan .... 99.00 

The Prolessiona! Pecan 99 00 

Source Level Debugger 5500 

TDI Modula 2 Comm 199 00 

TDI Modula 2 Dev 99.00 

TDI Modula2Reg 42 00 

True Basic , 65.00 

W Shell 35.00 



CREATIVE PRODUCTIVITY 



Analylic Arl $40 00 

The Big Picture 20 00 

Gamoz Enhanced ., — . 45 00 

Intellitype 35 00 

Magetian 139 00 

Master Type .,„...,.„.,.,,„.. 30- 00 

Mavis Beacon Typing 35.00 

Typing Tutor 30.00 



SPREADSHEETS 



Analyze 2 S95.0Q 

Haicalc 35 00 

Maxi Plan 500 99.00 

Maxi Plan Plus ...., 135.00 

VIP Professional 69 DO 



COMMUNICATIONS 



A Talk III J72.DO 

Atredes Professional BBS .. . 104.00 

BBSPc 100.00 

Diga 54.00 

Online! .,..,...,....«...,... 45.00 



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Shipping info: C.O.D. only $3.50 per shipping. We ship UPS Ground 

Air and Overnight shipping availabte. For faster dehvery send 

Cashier Check. Money Order, or use MasterCard or Visa. Personaf 

checks allow 20 days to clear Company purchase orders accepted 

Call for prior authorization. Mass. residents add 5% sales tax. Amiga 

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or for products that do not perform satisfactorily. We make no 
guarantees far products performance, 



Gen-coder 

THE GEN/ONE genlocking en- 
coder features SuperVHS Y/C 

and RS-107A outputs. To put 
you in charge, GEN/ONE al- 
lows full control over RGB-in- 
put and video-output levels, 
and variable control over com- 
puter timing relative to video. 
The encoder operates in three 
modes and has overlay capa- 
bilities as well as selectable 
sync and a blanking source. 



Two filters sift out unwanted 
chroma signals without de- 
grading the luminance band- 
width, and GEN/ONE does not 
decode the incoming video 
signal. Complete with its self- 
contained power supplv, GEN/ 
ONE is $895. Get all the de- 
tails from Communications 
Specialties Inc., 6090 Jericho 
Turnpike, Commack, NY 
11725, 516/499-0907. 



East Comes West 

STRAIGHT FROM the U.S.S.R. 
comes Tetris, a puzzle in mo- 
tion requiring fast thinking and 
quick reflexes. Designed by two 
Soviet programmers, the game 
is available from Spectrum Ho- 
lobyte. Two versions are com- 
bined in one package for 
S34.95. Spectum Holobyte can 
answer any questions: 2061 
Challenger Drive, Alameda, CA 
94501,415/522-3584. 



Re-inking 

MONOPAX INK Dispensers. 

refill cartidges for your ink-jet 
printer, promise to banish 
leaking and spotting that stan- 
dard refills are prone to. The 
disposable cartridges are avail- 
able in two- (S9) and four- 
packs ($18). Print up your 
questions and send them to Jet 
Technology, 16 Pembroke 
Road, Weston, MA 02193, 617/ 
239-8383. 



Space-See 

FROM THE FIRST Explorer 
launch through Voyagers I and 
II. Space Photos II (S29.95) 
gives you a pictorial history of 
the U.S. space program on two 
disks. You control the speed of 
the slideshow. Included in the 
package are files for decom- 
pressing the pictures into IFF 
format. Blast off to Signs Etc. 
by D. Knox, PO Box 628, Car- 
michael, CA 956090628, 916/ 
944-0790, 800/634-2952. 



Memories 

THE SIN 500-2 Internal Mem- 
ory Expansion Board is ex- 
pandable to one half, one, or 
two megabytes and requires 
four chips per half meg. The 
memory auto con figures in the 
standard Amiga expansion 
range with RAM on/off. The 
board is available for S299 
(unpopulated) from Spirit 
Technology, 220 West 2950 
South, Salt Lake City, UT 
84115, 801/485-4233. 



Gold and Glory 



YOUR SOLE OBJECTIVE is to 
become the best warrior — 
chicken fighting, arm wres- 
tling, fighting monsters, off to 
the training spa — you even 
must find time for banking 
and shopping. Role Playing 
Game Bulletin Board System 
(RPG-BBS) from Mercury Soft- 
ware allows you to become a 
warrior in a medieval quest 



for gold and glory. When you 
register on the RPG-BBS, you 
become a warrior. Also, you 
can customize main' of the ex 
ternal files to make your own 
unique board. Form teams 
with other registered users. 
RPG-BBS is available for 
$59.95 from Mercury Soft- 
ware, PO Box 83, Wilton, CT 
06897. *- 




StarSound 




From Starvision International 



K INCLUDING!. 



Quasar Sampling System 

I 

Stereo & Mono Capability 

I 

Line and Microphone Switches 

I 

Left & Right Channel Controllers 
Digital V/U & Peak Indicators 

I 

Microphone Adaptor 

Direct SamplingAbility 

Manual & QuasarSound Software 




StarSound brings you The Quasar Sam- 
pling System for your sound sampling 
needs. This dual system, uses both serial 
and parallel ports to double your sampling 
frequency range and eliminates unwanted 
noise common with other samplers. With 
a rale of 56 KhZ (28 KhZ each channel) 
and a direct microphone adaptor, you can 
sample sounds without the use of an am- 
plifier or pre-amp. Two channel input 
controls (Left & Right), digital V/U and 
Peak indicators gives you great sound con- 
trol and special effect capabilities. Manu- 
factured in Europe, comes with Quasar- 
Sound Software, its easy to install and 
gives you the best capabilities for your 
money. 

StarSound is available for $139.00 Rclail. 
For more information or to place an order 
contact; 

Starvision International 
305 Madison Avenue, Sic. 41 1 

New York, NY 10165 
Tel: (212) 867-4486 



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J AMIGA PRO SAMPLER STUDIO 



• variable sampSe raw and playback speed 



• Separate scroll Line waveform windows plus zoom 
function with Edit windows for fine accurate editing 

• Hardware compatible with many other software 
paciages 

• Software files can be used wttim other music 



• A top quality sound sampling system at a reuhsac 
price 

• All the usual features of a sampling system plus 
many more. 

• 100% machine code software for realtime Junctions 

• Hires sample editing, 

• Realtime frequency display 

• Heafume level meters 

• Fites saved tn IFF format 

• Adjustable manual/ automatic record mj level 

ONLY $199.99 COMPLETE SYSTEM, PLEASE STflTE A600/1000/2000 



• Reverse, copy, mix, clear plus other edit farciu.es 

• Microphone and line input 1 1 Jack and Dm 
connections 

• 3D snot of sound wavaferm Wave editor- to design 
your own. waveforms or adjust existing ones 




J MIDI MUSIC MANAGER 

• At last a truly professional 
Midi package for the Amiga at a 
realistic price. 

• 8 realtime Midi tracks for record/ 
playback 

• Works with standard IFF files 

• Adjustable track length - luted only by 
available memory 

• Use as a multi-track Midi recording studio 

• Works with many Midi interfaces including 
Datel Midi Master (see Ad) and Nineties 

• Editing facilities for corrections and track 
joining etc 

• Internal or External Midi dock control 

• Hay sampled sounds on Amiga from any 
Midi track 

• Full dubbing - listen to one track while 
recording another 

• Perfect companion for Pro Sampler Studio or 
any music application _ 

only $59.99 



J MIDIMASTER 

• Full Midi Interface for A500/ 
2000/1000 (Please state model) 

• Compatible with most leading 
Midi packages (inc. D/Music) 

• Midi In - Midi0utx3 - 
Midi Thru 

• Fully Opto Isolated 

• No need to pay more - 
Pull Midi standard 

ONLY $59.99 





J PRINTER CABLES 

• 25 pin 'D' to 36 way Centronics 
parallel lead. 

• A 500 or 1000 please state. 

• 1,2m length. 

ONLY $14.99 

• 25 pin 'D' to 25 pin 'D' - serial 
printer lead. 

• A500 or 1000 - please state. 

• 2m length. 

ONLY $14.99 



J DATA/SWITCH 
BOXES 

• A/B type connect two printers to one computer 
or {vice- versa) 

• Centronics connections or RS232 (Serial) connections 
(25 pen) please state 

ONLY $34.99 

• ABC type connect three printers to one computer 
(ci vice versa). 

• Centronics or RS23£ connections 

only 149.99 



I J AMIGA BURST NIBBLER 



• Superfafit-difik copter will copy almost any 
commercial djst 

• Friendly user Interface - Mouse driven 
throughout 

• Completely compatible with Amiga multitasking 
system. 

• Special "Strategy Files' cope with even the most 
advanced protection, schemes. 

•■ Fast operation - typically around 30 seconds. 

• Even decrypts many encoded programs including 
D.Prini/Vldeo Paint/Muslc/Il etc. 

• Worlts with one drive or two. 

• Multiple copy option allows you to make many 
copies, from one original. 



• Copy lor 2 cask sides - up to 85 tracks. 

• Unique THTG* analyser - displays vital disk 
parameters, including sector distribution, data 
dispersion, etc. etc. 

• Special format parameters for non standard 
formats. 

• Full verify option, 

• Easy to use Icon driven program takes the mystery 
out of disk backup. 

• Compatible with all Amigas. 

• Regular ■opiates available - we always snip the 
latest 

only $49.99 




J DATA ACQUISITION UNIT 

• TU-*n your Amiga Into a sophisticated measuring 
instrument capable of measuring a wide range or data 
Inputs 

• Sample and display events from microseconds to 
hours - with amplitudes from millivolts to 50 volts. 

• A Hardware .Software package with very high spec 
including: - 

J DIGITAL SCOPE DISPLAY — 2 channel inputs 
Manual or continuous display. Tcmebase S00ms/div w 
SOps.'div - accurate to £% 

• 6 hit Hash conversion gives Z miuiQfis samples/sec 

• Adjustable trigger level 5 i zoom functtcn. 
Memoryscan 

• Load/Save funcUofts. waveform enhancement graph 
displays. 

■ Hardware contains onboard RAM and Crystal dividers 
J PLOTTER DISPLAY 

• 2 channel display 

• Uemory recall display 

• Timebase range 1 sec to 10'iirs per plot 

All features found on unite costing thousands of pounds! 

ONLY SI 79.99 for htrdwire/ 

software/please state A500/1000/2000 



J EXTERNAL 3.5 
DISK DRIVE 

• an|le or twin drive models available 

• R»™l'"fl extra low profile - only 6" lco£ 

• Top quality NEC drive mechanism 

• Ttuooghport allows daisy coaming other 
drives 

• Superbly styteC case in Amiga colours 

• Fully compatible 

• 1 meg unforsiatted capacity per drive 

• Gcod cable length for posruotimg on your desk etc 

• Twin drive model takes up very little space 

• Value for Money - before you buy a drive please 
compare Che features - these drives have NEC 
mechanisBJS boused in superb cases. Some picducte 
are bust to a price and not a standard. Don't spend a 
lew pounds less and end jp with "rubbish" - and 
remember you are buyin| from the manufacturer. 

ONLY $ 1 69.99 SINGLE DRIVE 
$299.99 FOR "TWIN DRIVE 




JROBOTARM 

— Full Function 

— 5 Axis Movement 

• Explore the fascinating science of Robotics 
with this full feature Robot Arm. 

• Human like dexterity - with 5 Axis of 
movement it is so versatile. It can manip 
ulate small objects with amazing ability. 

• Easily controlled using 3 Joysticks (any 
S pin type ) or connect to your Amiga 
with our Interface t- Software to give 
Computer/Robotic control ( see Interface 
offer). 

• Comes with Accessories including 'Finger' 
Jaws. Magnetic Attachment. Shovel Scoop. 
4 Stabilizing Suction Base Legs, ete. 

• Uses 4 HP2 batteries (not supplied) to 
power motor movement so uses no com- 
puter power, 

• Self contained, ready to use (except batts. 
joysticks) 

Complete with Interface/software 

only $129.99 



J 51 2K RAM 
EXTENSION CARD 

• Available with/without calendar clock 
option 

• Simply plugs internally into a A500 
slot 

• Switch in/out with switch supplied 

• Fitted in minutes - no soldering etc. 

• With calendar/cloak onboard time/ 
date automatically booted 

• Batteiy backed to retain time/date 

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So You Want to Be in Pictures 

SO YOU HAVE big-picture 
ideas but cannot afford expen- 
sive hardware? Two additions 
to Microlllusions' Photon 
Video series offer some fea- 
ture-packed alternatives. The 
Time Code Generator allows 
you to generate longitudinal 
(SMPTE) time code to number 



each frame of your video. 

The Edit Decision List Pro- 
cessor lets you create your edit 
decision lists off-line, even a( 
home to save you money on 
edit sessions. Microlllusions is 
located at 17408 Chatsworth 
St., Granada Hills, CA 91344, 
800/522-2041. 



Graphic Transfers 

WITH THE ATREDES Profes- 
sional BBS you can manipu- 
late graphics on-line. The keys 
are the bulletin board's graph- 
ics protocol, SkyPix, and com- 
panion graphics program. 
SkyPaint, which offers on-line 
drawing tools, eight- or 16- 
color modes, standard Work- 
bench fonts, and IFF brush 
transfers. A SkyPix-compatible, 
public-domain terminal is in- 
cluded. In addition, the 
Atredes bulletin board sup- 



ports the more common pro- 
tocols: XMODEM, 1 K 
XMODEM, and YMODEM. 
The first upgrade, slated to in- 
clude networking and ARexx 
interfacing, is in the works. 
Atredes Professional BBS sells 
for $149.99, while the Atredes 
Turnkey module is $99.99. 
The SkyPaint program costs 
$49.99. Direct your questions 
to Incognito Software, 34518 
Warren, Suite 149, Westland, 
MI 48185.313/462-2148. 



Drive, Blast, and Destroy 

MINDSCAPE AND SEGA have all obstacles in your path. 



teamed up to bring you a trio 
of arcade challenges. In Out 
Run (S29.95) you drive a high- 
performance race car as fast as 
you can through a variety of 
terrains. Stay in control and 
you'll become a top driver. In 
Space Harrier ($49.95) you 
must keep galaxy pollution un- 
der control by blasting away at 



Alien Syndrome ($49.95) chal- 
lenges you to rescue your part- 
ners trapped in a mutant- 
infested genetic labratory. 
Destroy these creatures be- 
fore the lab self-destructs. 
The arcade is as close as 
Mindscape Inc., 3444 Dundee 
Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062, 
312/480-7667. 



Score Big 

TO HELP YOU SHARE your 
musical masterpieces with the 
rest of the band, Dr. T's offers 
Copyist DTP, a music-publish- 
ing, score-editing, and tran- 
scription program. You can 
input your scores by hand 
with supplied or user-defined 
symbols or input any standard 
MIDI file for transcription. 
The program supports stan- 
dard editing functions (cut, 
paste, copy, and delete), plus 
quantize options. Drivers for 
PostScript printers, Hewlett- 



80 February 1989 



Packard's LaserJet Plus and 
Inkjet, and Epson's FX are in- 
cluded. Copyist DIP sells for 
$399, but two scaled-down ver- 
sions — Copyist Apprentice 
($99.99) and Copyist ($249)— 
are available. For details on all 
three, contact Dr. T's. 220 
Boylston St., Chestnut Hill, 
MA 02167, 617/244-6954. ■ 



ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PRICES! 



We believe we have the best prices in the country! 
CHECK OUR COMPETITION . . . then CALL US! 



GRAPHICS & VIDEO 



DIG! VIEW 3.0 S128 

DIGIDROIO 62 

15' CAMERA CABLE 12 

16mm LEWS FIXED IRIS 30 

16mm LENS VAR, IRIS 76 

COPY STAND 55 

PRO GEN 365 

GEN 1 670 

SUPER GEN .670 

AMIGEN - 149 

AMIGA GENLOCK 1300 170 

FRAME GRABBER 198 

A-PR0 DRAW 12x12 490 

A-PR0 DRAW 9x6 395 



P-SONIC WV1410 200 

PANASONIC WV1500 310 

RF MODULATOR/500 48 

C-VIEW 36 

AMIGA LIGHT PEN 99 

NEWTECH GENDER CHGR 20 

CMI VIED0 INTERFACE 59 

EASYL from299 

FLICKER FIXER 470 

PERFECT VISION 170 

ELEC. COLOR SPLTR 74 

LIVE 5D0 288 

LIVE 1000 218 

LIVE 2000 329 



MONITORS 



AMIGA 1084S $300 

MAGNAV0X515 268 

MULTISYNC'S CALL 



DISKS 



GENERICS. 5 DS/DO 51.30(30) 
3 5 DS/0DSONYFUJI-MAXEU-3M-TDK 18 
GENERIC 5.25 DS/DD S25(200| 

GENERIC 3.5 color Si 50(30) 



MODEMS 


DISK DRIVES 


SUPRA 2400 S13B ■ 


FLEX DATA-3.5 EXT... 

MASTER 3A 3.5 EXT 

PHOENIX 3 5 EXT 


..$138 


AVATEX2400 148" 


159 


ANCHOR 2400 178" 


159 


AMIGA 1680 t00- 


3.5 DUAL DRIVE 


Call 


AVATEX 1200E 70" 


AMIGA 1010 


200 


AVATEX 1200HC 90" 


PRO DRIVE 


180 


ANCHOR 1200 90- 


PR00RIVE 200 


. ... 148 


MINI MODEM 90- 


PHOENIX 35 INT 


130 


"W/Cable Purchase Add S1 Alone 







RAM EXPANSION 


512KOK 


. S50 


ASDG BMG OK 


398 


51 2K POPULATED 


from 149 


EIGHT-UP BOARD 2000. 


144 


256KCHIPS(1mg} 


.350 


ESCORT 2 OK 


from 248 


1 MGCHlPS(lmg) 


.... 300 


ESCORT 2 1mg 


from 4 70 


EIGHT-UP POP SIMS 

HARDFR0ME 


Specials 
. . 238 


ESCORT 2 2mg 


from 695 


EXP1000 1mg0K .. 


. 209 


SUBSYSTEM 500/1000 


.... 200 


EXP1000 1mg0K 


209 


SUBSYSTEM w/3.5 Drive.. 


.... 360 


EXP1000 Img POPULATED 


. ...479 


STARBOARD 2 500/1000 OK 


... 235 


PR0RAM 2000 8MG/0K . . 


248 


STARBOARD 2 W/512K 


.... 398 


BYTE BOX OK 


. . 248 


STARBOARD 2 w/1mg 


.598 


AMIGA 2058 8MG/2MG 


678 


STARBOARD SB2000 ADAPTER 


INSIDER 1000 OK . 


.180 


STARBOARD 2 UPPER DECK, 


....78 


INBOARD 500/1000 OK. .. 


248 


256K BOARD A10D0 


.148 


INBOARD 500/1000 512K 


360 


ALEGRA 1000 OK 


166 


INBOARD 500/1000 Img.. 


. 4 70 


ALEGRA 1000 51 2K 


374 


INBOARD 500/1000 1.5mg . 


580 


ALEGRA 1000 2 MG 


.. 738 


C LTD AMEGA0K . . 


248 



PRINTERS 



STAR RAINBOW 219° 

STARNX1000 170- 

STAR NB2410 400" 

STAR NX2400 310" 

PANASONIC 10801-il 159" 



OKIMATE 20«w/PNP 180" 

PANAS0NIC1091I-M 179" 

PANAS0NIC1092I 300" 

PANAS0NIC1124 319" 

PANASONIC LASER S1600' 

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Add S1 Alone 



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C LTD Amiga Cont . New Low Price 


Seagate SCSI 20mg/3.5 


330 


Phoenix Amiga HD. Cont. , SpecialPnce 


Seagate SCSI 30mg/3 5 . . 


420 


Supra SCSI 500/1000 Card . . . Irom 185 


Seagate SCSI 48mg/3.5 


... 570 


Microbotics SCSI 100 


Seagate SCSI 65mg/5 25.. . 
Miniscribe 20mg/ST506 .... 


. ...515 
.270 


C LTD SCSI 1000 210 


Supra 2000 DMA 218 


Exp Tech 32mg 500/1000 . . 


Irom 725 


Impact SCSI 1mg OK ,.. 288 


Exp Tech 48mg 500/1000. . 


Irom 850 


Impact SCSI 2mg OK 300 


Supra 20 mg 500/ 1000/2000 


Irom 699 


Impact SCSI 512K Populated . . liom425 


Supra30mg500/1000/2O00 


from 729 


Impact SCSI 1mg Populated 540 


Supra 60 mg 500/1 000/2000.. 


Irom 1 299 


GVP 500/20mg/Ram/Subsystem ... 695 


CLTD 33mg 500/1 000/2000 . 


1rom819 


Overdrive HD Controler 198 


CLTD44mg 500/1000/2000. 


. lrom819 


Starboard 2 SCSI Module 95 


CLTD 50mg 500/1 000/2000 


Irom 929 




GVP 2000/40mg 11ms 


780 




GVP 2000/80mg 


1250 


nil c*o 


Impact 20mg 


550 


IV! 1 ■ j 


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640 


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... 780 


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Disk Drives Inside/Out S27 

Amiga Tricks & Tips 513 

Amiga C 523 

Amiga Oo& inside'Dut S IB 
Amiga Machine Lang . 1fl 
Amiga C for Beginners $15 

Amiga Sys Prog Guide 533 
Amiga Basic Insid&'Qut $23 
Amiga for Beginners . . . . 515 
Amiga 3D Graphics 518 

ABSOFT 

AC.Basic SI 17 

AC.'Fortran S180 

ACTIONWARE 

Capone 524 

Crtalurc S2-I 

Phaser Gun Cslt 

P.0.W Call 

ACTIVTSION 

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GB Air flalfj S24 

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Portal 530 

Shanghai . . S24 

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intuition Manual 520 

Awn KemaJ Manual . . 524 
R.3T Manual Eiec S16 

AEGIS 

An mator/lmages S3* 

An Disk 52* 

Audiotnaster 2 $60 

Oiga S46 

Draw 2000 5168 

Imitacl SS4 

Lighls Camera Action 546 

Mcdeier 30 Call 

Ports o! Call $30 

Sonx $48 

Viceoseape 3D 2 o 5120 

Vrceo Tiller 590 

AMIGA 

1.3 Enhancer 2d. 

Graphic Crall $10 

AN CO 

Exwlibur 515 

face Ofl S15 

Formula I Pacing $15 

Games of Chess $21 

Harrier Mission S15 

HR 35 $15 

Ka-ate Kid $15 

Kalrno Grand Pru $15 

Las Vagas 515 

ANTIC 

Architectural Design $21 

Future Design $21 

Human Design $21 

Microdot Design $21 

Pioneer Plague $24 

Zoeltope $S4 

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Br.dfle5.il 521 

Centerfold Squares Sis 

Lirkword Languages SIS 

Strip Poker 2 524 

SliipPkr DlU»4 . 512 
Strip Pkr Da!a#5 512 

A5DG 

FACC II $21 

Cygnus Ed Call 

BANANA 

0-2-0 .. Call 

BA1ITAM 

AnigaDOS Express , . 520 

DOS Manuals 522 

BAUDVILLE 

Award Maker $30 

Video Vegas , S2A 

B.E.S.T. 

Business Mgml .... 5290 

General Ledger Call 

BRO0EBBUN0 

Downhill Challange ...... $18 

Fantawision Call 

SVyctiase Call 

Star Wars . . S24 

BROWN WAGH 

Express Paint 2.2 . . $60 
Mdr Major Call 

Publisher Plus ... StiO 
Softwood File llsg S60 

TV Show S60 

TV Ten . . $60 
Word Plei 524 

ZLma Fonts {1-41 $21 

aUENA VISTA 

Roger Rabbit S27 



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Afltum S4B 

BfTE BY BITE 

Animate 3-D S9S 

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Tale Fonts i 542 

Tale Fonts 2 $42 

C LIP 

All Titles 40*. Oil 

CAPILANO 

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DISK to DISK $30 

DOS 2 DOS S33 

Quarterback $42 

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King ol Chipago 530 

Lords of Rising Sun . . Call 
Rocker Ranger S3D 

S.D.I S30 

Smbad 530 

3 Stooges ... S30 

COMMAND SIMULATIONS 

BliBmeg S30 

DATA SOFT 

Android Decision S23 

Annuals ol Rome 523 

Firezone , S23 

DIGITAL CREATIONS 

Gimtos 70 $42 

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LPD Writer 542 

DIGITEK 

Amigas S21 

Clever 4 Smart $21 

Cyber Complei $21 

Drum Sfucio S30 

final Mission SIB 

Gunshoot S21 

Hole 1 Mini Boh 524 

Joe Blade S21 

Power Sty* 521 

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HELP KEY 

Having finished all the chocolates, Sweet Lou indulges 
in his favorite treat — a heart-shaped box of questions. 



Hard Hookup 

Q: / have an Amiga 1000, and 
would like to add a hard drive. 
Can I connect a hard drive directly 
to (he expansion port? 

F. Bush 
Vacherie, LA 

A: You can add a hard drive 
to your A 1000 via the expan- 
sion bus, but you will need a 
special hard-drive interface for 
the A1000. Vou cannot con- 
nect a hard drive without an 
interface; attempting to do so 
could cause damage to your 
computer and hard drive. 
Make sure that the interface 
allows the computer to auto- 
configure, that is, automati- 
cally recognize the drive on 
start up. A number of compa- 
nies, such as Supra, C Ltd, and 
( omSpec. make liai d <h i\r\ 
and interlaces for the A1000. 



Uncharted 

Q: Do you know of any software 
that performs project management 
functions such as pert charts, mile- 
stone charts, critical path, etc.? 
Also, is there anything that will 
turn an IFF graphic file into an 
ASCII fde? 

E. Sianzah 
Boon ton. A'/ 

A: I haven't seen any project 
management software yet. The 
closest thing is a series of ad- 
vanced statistics programs 
from Lionheart Software fPO 



By Louis R. Wallace 

Box 379, Alburg, VT 05440). 

To convert IFF graphic files 
to ASCII, you need LaserUpl 
Print from S, Anihonv Studios 
(889 De Ham St., San' Fran- 
Cisco, CA 94107, 415/826-6193), 
which converts IFF files into 
the EPS {Encapsulated Post- 
Script) format so they can be 
transferred to oilier systems. 

Crashing Bridge 

Q: / am having problems with my 
Bridgehoard. When I play some 
IBM games, the IBM side crashes, 
and an Amiga requester appears 
with the message "Lock List Cor- 
rupt." With some productivity 
packages, when I double click the 
right mouse button, yellow flashes 
appear on the screen, and the sys- 
tem crashes. My biggest problem is 
that I can't use a joystick from the 
Bridgelmord. Any ideas? 

B. Bernard 
Erie, PA 

A: I don'l know what is caus- 
ing the crashes. Mv experience 
with the Bridgehoard has 
shown ii to he a fairly compat- 
ible PC clone. I have no 
doubt, however, that some PC 
software (especially games) 
could crash it. The 1.3 Amiga 
operating system upgrade con- 
tains a new version of the 
Janus library and a new set of 
PC Tools to work with it. Per- 
haps the upgrade will solve 
your software problems. 



As for a joystick, most PCs 
do not come with a gameport 
as standard equipment. Vou 
will need to buy an expansion 
card that has a gameport 
(most multifunction PC cards 
have one). You will also need a 
special joystick because Amiga 
joysticks won't work with a PC. 

At Random 

Q: / am writing a program that 
chooses random numbers using the 
INT and RND Junctions. How do 
you reset them using the RAN- 
DOMIZE statement? 

J. Christensen 
Kenosha, IVY 

A: The RXI) function has 
three variations. The first uses 
a negative argument, for ex- 
ample RND(-l). When you 
supply a negative value, it re- 
sets the random number gen- 
erator to the first number in 
the sequence. If you generate 
ten random numbers, then is- 
sue a RND(- 1) and create an- 
other ten random numbers, 
die second ten would match 
the first ten. The second for- 
mat uses any number greater 
than zero for an argument, 
such as RN'U(l), or no number 
at all (jusi RN'D). This returns 
the next number in the ran- 
dom number sequence. The 
third formal uses zero as an 
argument, and it repeats the 
last number generated. 

To reset the random num- 
ber generator to a new se- 
quence of values, use the 



RANDOMIZE command. It ac- 
cepts any number from 
- 32768 to + 32767 as its ar- 
gument; each of the 65,536 
values will generate a different 
sequence. If you simply use 
RANDOMIZE by itself! pro- 
gram execution will stop until 
you enter a new seed value. 
1 lie best method is to use 
the syntax RANDOMIZE 
TIMER, which seeds the ran- 
dom number generator with 
the number of seconds that 
have elapsed since midnight. 

WHERE'S BOB? 

Q: / was told that I could make 
my A 500 IBM compatible by get- 
ting something called Bob's Board, 
and buying an IBM case and disk 
drive. Is this legitimate? If so, 
where can I get it? 

C. Atkisson 
Fremont, CA 

A: What you were told was a 
case of mistaken identity. Bill's 
Boards Bus Expander from 
Comp-U-Save is an expansion 
board (not a chassis) that will 
allow you to add Amiga 2000 
and IBM slots to an A500 or 
A1000. Combine Bill's Board, 
an IBM AT case, a power sup- 
ply, Commodore's A2088 
Bridgehoard, which provides 
very good, although basic, MS- 
DOS compatibility, and an 
A500 (and about four feet of 
desk space), and you have an 
A500 with MS-DOS abilities. 
Contact Comp-U-Save at 414 
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from p. 18 

productive about this? In an insiant, the 
worst lias happened: You're working. 

You're producing pages of comics: lav- 
ing out panels, pasting clip art into 
them, and customizing the characters 
and backgrounds with DeluxePainl II 
(Electronic Arts)style drawing tools. 
When you've perfected vour creations, 
you'll direct them to any one of a variety 
of color, black-and-white, or laser print- 
ers. If you have a copy of Professional 
1'age (also front Gold Disk), you might 
even turn out four-color separations for 
use with an offset printer — that would 
really be productive. 

Bedrock Drawing 

Though stylistically closer to "The I-'lini- 
Stones" than to "Doonesbury" or "The 
Far Side," ComicSetler printouts look 
pretty much like real comics. The output 
is great for off-heat greeting cards, car- 
toons for the office bulletin board, or 
even advertising art. ComicSetter is 
geared for the casual doodler, though, 
and using it to create the exaggerated 
perspectives and fine lines of true comic 
art is difficult at best. 

Unless you have some drawing talent, 
vour efforts will be restricted to varia- 



tions on whatever clip art vou'te able to 
dig it]). One disk of art is included with 
ComicSetter, and Gold Disk offers sev- 
eral others separately; you can also im- 
port IFF files. Except for one figure in a 
spacesuit. none of the characters on the 
included disk are clothed. Fortunately, 
you can use the Fill tool on these naked 
guys, so they appear to be wearing skin- 
tight costumes of whatever color or pat- 
tern you choose. You can then add de- 
tailing with the Draw tool, though this is 
a bit tedious. 

While you may be able to individuate 
your characters with costumes, you can't 
avoid having to position them in one or 
anoiher of the same old heroic altitudes, 
The clip-art pieces don't always fit to- 
gether precisely, either — vou can't just 
grab an arm with the mouse and stick it 
on a torso. Instead, you must type in a 
pair of coordinates to line up the sec- 
tions, and finding the right ones is a 
time-consuming trial-and-error affair. 
Also, you can't rotate or reorient any of 
the parts, which I found especially con- 
fining. Occasionally, my backgrounds 
were destroyed for no apparent reason, 
and memory was tight, even with two 
megabytes (twice the nominal minimum), 

One of ComicSetter's better features is 



the flexible handling of speech bal- 
loons — you have complete control over 
every imaginable parameter to make 
them look just right. (The clip-art disk 
contains such standard effects as POW! 
and BLAMI, but if you want to say some- 
thing like F.KF.F.YAAAAH!. vou'll have to 
write it yourself.) Another welcome capa- 
bility is scaling, which lets you resize any 
graphic — if you want to reduce a panel. 
you don't have to crop it. A sophisti- 
cated curve-drawing tool gives you paint- 
ing power. 

Put It in Print 

Seeing your first printed pages, espe- 
cially if you have a color primer, is a lot 
of fun. The print options are many and 
varied. Be sure to experiment with all 
the parameters until you find the most 
advantageous combination, as there's 
quite a bit of variance in speed and 
print quality. A few early copies of 
ComicSetter contain unusable versions 
of both the printer device and at least 
one printer driver (Epson), which were 
inadvertently placed on the disk. In the 
unlikely event that you receive one of 
these copies, you can either return it lot- 
exchange, or simply replace the defective 
items with those from vour Workbench ►- 



Import characters that you've cre- 
ated in a paint program, then add 
one or more of the heroic types 
who call the clip-art disk home. 




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INVISION TRANSFORMS YOUR Amiga 
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Q "129 Amiga Utilities]]' A hard disk backup; Target-sounds a 
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□ * 1 30 Videomaker Utilities - This disk is packed with utilities 
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D *30 Super Sounds -Great digitized sounds Irom movies like 
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□ *77 Instruments - Turn your keyboard into 25 dillerent 
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D *55 EA Demo and Polyscope - More great graphics for your 
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D *94 Diga-View - This one shows the digitizing process in 

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3 *37 Business Programs - Included are an address book, 

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printer. 
D *27 Amoeba Invaders - A belter Space Invaders! 
»140 Virus Killer - Everyone needs this! Makes it easy to 

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D *115 Word Processor - Lots of features. 

□ *134 Applications - Label maker/ printer, grocery list maker, 
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3 "142 Q-Bert - Like the popular arcade version. 

□ *139 Bull Run - Great Civil War strategy board game, with 
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3 # 122 Solitaire ■ Two versions by David Addison, 
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3 * 1 24 Milestone - A great computer version of M i les Bou mes 
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3 *125 Othello - A great 3-D version of this popular game. 
C * 1 28 Space Games - Cosmoroids (like asteroids) and Gravity 
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3 *137 Blackjack - A (ull-featured game which allows pair- 
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has Othello, Life3 and many useful utilities. 

3 *151 4 in a Row - A lun. but challenging game you play 

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current Live! image). Another control, 
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that lets you sensitize your key and pal- 
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much like putting a color filter over 
your camera lens. 

Invision doesn't stop at 38 keys — it 
employs the mouse, as well. The two but- 
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assigned 10 the key; change the map and 
you can drastically alter the look. 

With the SuperGen assignment, you 
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lock: Moving the mouse up and down 
adjusts the fade rale and level of Amiga 
graphics, while side-to-side motion regu- 
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When you consider that most of Inva- 
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scope of this product) 

Mixing a Medley 

Invision supplants normal Live! software 
and controls the digitizer directly. lap 
the designated capture key (you can give 
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ber of keys) and you have a single frame. 
Hold it down and Invision will capture a 
sequence of frames until memory is 
filled (my 2/a-meg system could hold 
about five seconds of moving video). 



One or more keys can also be desig- 
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frames with live video from an outboard 
source such as a VCR or camera. If all 
this sounds like too much to remember. 
Flan Design includes blank templates for 
you to label each key's function. 

Images captured from live video 
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carry a range of effects) displays the two 
images on screen simultaneously. With a 
genlock, you can add a third layer. 

The Layout 

I encountered only one problem using 
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you can eat up so much memory grab- 
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are then literally at your fingertips to apply instantly 
on the moving video. At up 
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created in other graphics programs over moving video. 
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Moving video can be captured to different keys 
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and division doesn't know whether you 
have room until it tries. Fortunately, nei- 
ther event causes the program to crash; 
you can clear frames from memory to re- 
cover control. 

Invision's manual is clearly written in 
conversational tone, and the layout and 
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instructions, and to the right, the key- 
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The program disk is not copy pro- 
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Invision is excellent all around. Every- 
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Project l)'s main screen is similar to 
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should have little need to reference the 
excellent 16-page manual. 

The Project D package contains a disk 
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The BackupTool screen is divided into 
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drives; you can make up to four copies 
at a time, provided you have enough 
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81 — to start and stop copying (while nor- 
mal AmigaDOS disks stop at track 79, 
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protection). The final section provides a 
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Once you have selected a copy option 
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I have used. If you have only one disk 
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the program will prompt you to ex- 
change disks periodically. 



The Project D toolbox also includes 
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ing any part of the object, or changing 
its color or size. 

As before, you can rotate an object in 
three dimensions to get different views, or 
you can change the position of the cam- 
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car instead of rotating it) to get different 
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convert your object between two and 
three dimensions, without loss of spatial 
data. You can enlarge and reduce objects, 
too, although this alters the data. 

Forms In Flight II does not render in 
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While not difficult, it is time-consuming 
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process to get the results you want. 

Forms In Flight II lets you load an Iff 
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objects. More importantly, the new Tex- 



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Forms In Flight II includes a powerful 
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mat where objects are either parents, 
children, or siblings. The terminology 
makes orchestrating your animation 
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good examples. The program does not 
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tunately, it is freely distibutable) for play- 
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Controlling Interest 

Neither Forms In Flight nor the up- 
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interlaced mode and another for non-in- 
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The new manual (over 100 pages long) 
is much like the old one. It takes a tuto- 
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with an overview list. Although the docu- 
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cult to follow. 

Forms In Flight II's curved surfaces en- 
able you to generate complex objects 
that are beyond the reach of other 
Amiga 3-D rendering packages. Phong 
shading and sophisticated IFF-texture 
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program a name. If VIP later encounters 
that type of virus, the program will refer 
to it by name, 

VIP is not copy protected. I had no 
problems storing it on my hard disk, and 
it worked well with the 1.3 operating sys- 
tem, including the Fast File System. The 
manual is brief but adequate. 

After making VIFF entries of several 
commercial games, I infected the disks 
with an SCA virus. Using VIP, I quickly 
and easily restored the boot blocks, then 
loaded and played the games. I did not 
detect any differences in the programs 
after restoration, 

VIP works only when you use it. If a 
disk becomes infected before you have 
stored it's boot block, you are out of 
luck — unless you can borrow a copy 
from a friend. 

VIP's Examine option requires that 
you keep a full hires screen running. If 
you want only to check for the presence 
of viruses, I suggest you look to the pub- 
lic domain; you can Find better, more 
discrete virus checkers there. If you have 
a substantial investment in copy-pro- 
tected software that uses custom boot 
blocks, you should get VIP and use it. It 
can pay for itself with one save. Better 
yet, do both and you will likely be safe 
from all of today's viruses. 

Virus Infection Protection 

Discovery Software International 

163 Conduit St. 

Annapolis, MD 21401 

301/268-9877 

$49.95 

No special requirements. 

Easy Titler 

Simple is as simple does. 
By Gary Ludwick 

EASY TITLER BILLS itself as the easiest- 
to-use tilling program available for the 
Amiga. I can't argue with that claim. The 
question is, is it too simple? 

The program autoboots on Amiga 500 
and 2000 machines, but to use it on an 



A1000, you must call it up from the CLI. 
You need only memorize one control 
key; everything else is on screen. 

Easy Titler keeps things simple on the 
creative end as well. You have a choice 
of two typefaces, block or script (block 
has a bold version, too), and you can se- 
lect from three colors for those faces: 
black, white, or yellow. You also have 
three options for making the type ap- 
pear on screen: Push Up (the crawling 
type often used for TV credits), Snap 
On, and Fade In. 

Make your choices, type in your title, 
and you are ready to roll. 

As you might expect from the choice 
of effects, Easy Tiller is also a slideshow 
generator. Each show accepts up to 16 
screens and you can vary the effect used 
between screens. You have no control 
over timing for either the effect or the 
display of your title. Do you want to dis- 
play one screen twice as long as the oth- 
ers? Then you must make two identical 
screens and use the Snap On effect be- 
tween them so that the transition is 
invisible. 

Easy Titler allows you to display your 
titles over background pictures — either 
digitized photographs or artwork. The 
program's Picture Directory can hold up 
to four 320x200 IFF images, and the 
program will call up any one of those 
images as directed. 

Fade to Black 

To decipher my conclusion, go back to 
the beginning of the review and substi- 
tute the word "limiting" for every occur- 
rence of "simple." That's the word on 
Easy Titler. In fact, the program is limit- 
ing to the point of near uselessness. Easy 
Titler is so simple to use that a fifth 
grader can operate it, but even a novice 
videophile will quickly yearn for more 
sophistication and flexibility. I suggest 
you save your money for VideoTitler 
(Aegis) or TV*Text (Zuma/Brown Wagh). 
They may not be as easy to learn or use, 
but they won't leave you powerless, 
either. 

Easy Titler 
JMH Software 
7200 Hemlock Lane 

Maple Grove, MN 55369 

612/424-5464 

$49.95 

No special requirements. ■ 



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99 


12 


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Aztec C Developer Compiler 195 

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BBS PC/New Version 99 

Benchmark Modula 2 129 
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CLIMate 27 

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Diga 52 

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Diskmaster 39 

FACC II 25 

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GOMF V3 wfHardware 49 

Grahbit 20 

Inova Tools 52 

Lattice C+ + 339 
Lattice C MS DOSfAmigaDOS Comp 359 

Lattice C V 5 Developer Pack 205 

Mac Emulator* call 

On Line V2 42 

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Programming graphics in C, Index to' 1988 articles. 

December 1988— Software Buyer's Guide. Programming 
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ing. AmigaDOS 1.3 overview, part 5. 

November 1988— Top 40 games countdown. Identifying 
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August 1988— Amiga workstations: science, engineering, 
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Roundup of printer utilities. Comparative review of Mod- 
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June 1988— Assembling and recording on a home MIDI 
system. Roundup of music hardware and software. Re- 
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May 1988— Introduction to version 1.3 of the Operating 
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Tips on programming WordPerfect macros. 

April 1988— Telecommunications: on-line services and 
software. Programming proportional gadgets in C and 
recursion in BASIC. Setting up a virtual MS-DOS disk 
with your Bridgeboard and hard disk. 

January 1988— Desktop publishing software comparative 
review. Public-domain software recommendations. Com- 
parative review of Sculpt 3D and VideoScape 3D. Brain 
surgery and the Amiga. 

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110 February 1989 




"May I Take 
Your Order?" 



Seated at the Amiga banquet, you see dozens of 
appetizing main courses. There are business briskets, 
viciei i vie I uals, music mu nth ies, and game goodies. A 
feast for every palate. But you can't just start stuffing 
your face right away. That would be gauche. First you 
must sample a little of this, a touch of that. As all 
gourmets have a bit of the chef within them, you 
must have noticed as you worked your way down the 
table that some things, properly prepared, in bite- 
sized pieces, would make excellent appetizers. I'm 
sure that you also have a few useful tips for Amiga 
dining. Which spoon to use, how to twirl your fork, 
which is the soup and which is the Finger bowl. Those 
sorts of things. 

No matter how long you have been enjoying the 
Amiga buffet, there are bound to be a few things 
you've learned (either the hard way, by chance, or 
from a friend) that others might not know. Is there 
a way to cheat at Bongo Blaster? Have you discovered 
a cheap source of diskette boxes? A way to fix screen 
flicker? A short BASIC program that calculates dates? 
A unique use for a digitizer? A way to insure good 
video signals? A snappy startup-sequence? A clever 
batch Hie? A way to make money with your Amiga? 
Or anything that might be useful to another Amiga 
owner and would fit in a few paragraphs? 

Our hints-andtips column, Hors d'oeuvres, is one 
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297 Baudville, 54 

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298 Magni Systems, Inc., 18 

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154 RSISystems, 104 

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194 Software Excitement, 89 

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